Love & Respect
Ephesians 5:22-33
Wives and Husbands
Bee's Thoughts:
Wives are to"submit" (v22) and "respect" (v33) their husbands. Submission is non-voluntary action while respect is voluntary action. Submission is based on authority bestowed while respect has to be earned.
When husbands truly love their wives, it's natural for their wives to respect them. Love involves the husbands' willingness to give themselves or their rights to their wives (v25).
"Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends." John 15:12-17
When we compare verses in Ephesians 5 and John 15, we can see that husbands and wives should be the best of friends after all. True friendship and love are non separable.
Dear Lord,
You desire that friendship, love and respect be found not only between husbands and wives but also between true friends. For relationship, friendship and love will not past away when we meet You one day. Help me to cultivate such things that will last. May my life be a blessing to someone today.
In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
Wives and Husbands
22Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26to make her holy, cleansing[a] her by the washing with water through the word, 27and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church— 30for 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."[b] 32This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Bee's Thoughts:
Wives are to"submit" (v22) and "respect" (v33) their husbands. Submission is non-voluntary action while respect is voluntary action. Submission is based on authority bestowed while respect has to be earned.
When husbands truly love their wives, it's natural for their wives to respect them. Love involves the husbands' willingness to give themselves or their rights to their wives (v25).
"Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends." John 15:12-17
When we compare verses in Ephesians 5 and John 15, we can see that husbands and wives should be the best of friends after all. True friendship and love are non separable.
Dear Lord,
You desire that friendship, love and respect be found not only between husbands and wives but also between true friends. For relationship, friendship and love will not past away when we meet You one day. Help me to cultivate such things that will last. May my life be a blessing to someone today.
In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
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8/25/2006 08:59:00 PM
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