Lessons in Virtue – The Marriage Equation

Lessons in Virtue – The Marriage Equation

Apostle Grace Lubega

Ephesians 5:22-25 (KJV); Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

The husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the Church.

The Bible requires that the wife submit herself to her husband even as unto the Lord.

What this means is, the same way that a woman respects the Lord Jesus is the same way she ought to respect her husband; the same way she addresses the Lord Jesus (with utmost honour and humility in acknowledgement of His Lordship over her life) is the same way that she ought to address her husband.

A woman cannot claim humility in prayer and not have a place of humility before her husband.

On the other hand, husbands ought to love their wives like Christ loved the Church.

This means that regardless of what she does, he must be prepared to forgive and cherish her. This love is unconditional.

As a husband, because you love like Christ, what Christ can never do to the church, you can never do to your wife; what Christ does for the church, you ought to do for your wife.

FURTHER STUDY: 1 Peter 3:7, Proverbs 31:12

GOLDEN NUGGET:

The same way that a woman respects the Lord Jesus is the same way she ought to respect her husband; the same way she addresses the Lord Jesus (with utmost honour and humility in acknowledgement of His Lordship over her life) is the same way that she ought to address her husband. In the same way, as a husband, because you love like Christ, what Christ can never do the church, you can never do to your wife; what Christ does for the church, you ought to do for your wife.

PRAYER: Thank you Lord for this great knowledge. I submit myself to this wisdom, to look to you as the centre of my marriage and the pattern by which I love and honour my spouse. My marriage is a success, a testimony of blessing. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

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