TOWARDS A HAPPY HOME: HUSBAND, LOVE YOUR WIFE AS YOURSELF

 ANCHOR OF LIFE DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE For WEDNESDAY, 7TH JUNE, 2023.

TOPIC: TOWARDS A HAPPY HOME: HUSBAND, LOVE YOUR WIFE AS YOURSELF.

MEMORIZE: " Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter toward them."  Colossians 3:19.

SCRIPTURE READING: Ephesians 5:25-33.

“25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, 26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, 27 that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. 28 So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church. 30 For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. 31 "For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh." 32 This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. 33 Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.”

EXPOSITION:

The duty of husbands is to love their wives (Eph 5:25); for without this they would abuse their superiority and headship, and, wherever this prevails as it ought to do, it will infer the other duties of the relation, it being a special and peculiar affection that is required in her behalf. The love of Christ to the church is proposed as an example of this, which love of his is a sincere, a pure, an ardent, and constant affection, and that notwithstanding the imperfections and failures that she is guilty of. The greatness of his love to the church appeared in his giving himself unto the death for it.

The love which God requires from the husband in behalf of his wife will make amends for the subjection which he demands from her to her husband; and the prescribed subjection of the wife will be an abundant return for that love of the husband which God has made her due. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies, &c. Eph 5:28. The wife being made one with her husband, this is an argument why he should love her with as cordial and as ardent an affection as that which he loves himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh, Eph 5:29--(no man in his right senses ever hated himself, however deformed, or whatever his imperfections might be); so far from it that he nourishes and cherishes it; he uses himself with a great deal of care and tenderness, and is industrious to supply himself with everything convenient or good for him, with food and clothing, &c. 

True love is sacrificial. As husband, you must proof your love to your wife with evidence, so she can stay secure with her full trust in you. When your love is doubted by your wife, it will be difficult for her to feel secure under you. This will eventually produce rebellion in her. Therefore, you must work out the joy in your home through true love to your family.

PRAYER POINT:  Lord, let there be peace in our homes in Jesus name.

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  Psalms 16-18.