LOVE AND RESPECT
Keywords 5:33
However, each one of you
also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her
husband.
1. Wives, submit to your husbands (22-24)
The general
principle for the human relationship is to “submit to one another out of
reverence for Christ” (21). For the marital relationship, the wife is to submit
to her husband as the head of the family. Paul compares this relationship to
Christ’s headship of the church. As the relationship between Christ and the
church is sustained by love and submission, so is the relationship between a
husband and wife.
2. Husbands, love
your wives (25-33)
As Christ loved the
church, the husband should love his wife. Christ loved us when we were still
sinners. He gave himself up for us to be holy and blameless. His love is
unconditional and sacrificial. So Paul says, “…husbands ought to love their
wives as their own bodies.” We take good care of our bodies with food, clothes,
medicine, rest etc. Likewise, the husband should love and take care of his
wife. The husband and wife are one flesh through God-ordained marriage, and it
is “a profound mystery.” To keep this profound mystery Christ-like, the husband
must love his wife and the wife should respect her husband.
Prayer Lord, thank you for
your submission to God and your love for us. Help us imitate your example.
One Word Do as Christ has done
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