LOVE & RESPECT
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 3:40PM This Sunday we will be looking at Ephesians 5:21-33. I would enjoy any comments that you have regarding the text with posting a comment.
[21] Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
[22] Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. [23] For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. [24] Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
[25] Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her [26] to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, [27] and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. [28] In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. [29] After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church-- [30] for we are members of his body. [31] "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh." [32] This is a profound mystery--but I am talking about Christ and the church. [33] However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Reader Comments (2)
I appreciate this text. I have learned that I my submission and respect for my husband Joel is that he is a screen door and on the other side is God. So by submitting to Joel that allows me to Submit to God. and when I am disrespectful to Joel and I am also disrespecting God. So much to learn about my marriage.
as you know i'm pretty liberal and independant. I think as joining to become "one" the husband and wife should both be the head. not at the same time, but taking turns or taking charge depending on the issue. One of my favorite lines from a movie," the man is the head of the house, but the women is the neck". or "If Mommy isn't happy....nobody is happy." So when it comes right down to it, if there is a differance of opinion on something important at our house, it my take time..... a long time for God to show the way that pleases both. A good marriage will withstand the time.-Dani