So what's the secret of a great marriage?
You need not look farther than the Bible where God sets the ground rules and
gives His secrets of success for marriage.
And here it is:
Women - Respect and reverence your Husband (that she notices him,
regards him, honors him, prefers him, venerates, and esteems him; and that
she defers to him, praises him, and loves and admires him exceedingly -
Ephesians 5:33 Amplified Bible)
Men - Love your Wife (love his wife as [being in a sense] his very own
self - Ephesians 5:33 Amplified Bible)
Men don't need love so much as they want your respect. Many say 'you must earn my respect'. Is it also true then that you must earn his love?
In order to turn your marriage around today, try it God's way.
If you haven't attended a Love & Respect conference then be sure to register for one today - http://loveandrespect.com
Berwyn Baptist Church Marriage Ministry starts back up:
Friday, January 10th
Berwyn Baptist Church
4720 Cherokee Street
College Park, MD 20740
301.474.7117
http://www.berwynbaptist.org
Ephesians 5:22 - 33 - J.B. Phillips New Testament
22-24 You wives must learn to adapt yourselves to your husbands, as you
submit yourselves to the Lord, for the husband is the “head” of the wife in the
same way that Christ is head of the Church and saviour of the body. The willing
subjection of the Church to Christ should be reproduced in the submission of
wives to their husbands.
25-27 But, remember, this means that the husband must give his wife the same
sort of love that Christ gave to the Church, when he sacrificed himself for
her. Christ gave himself to make her holy, having cleansed her through the
baptism of his Word—to make her an altogether glorious Church in his eyes. She
is to be free from spots, wrinkles or any other disfigurement—a Church holy and
perfect.
28-33 Men ought to give their wives the love they naturally have for their
own bodies. The love a man gives his wife is the extending of his love for
himself to enfold her. Nobody ever hates or neglects his own body; he feeds and
looks after it. And that is what Christ does for his body, the Church. And we
are all members of that body, we are his flesh and blood! ‘For this reason a
man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two
shall become one flesh’. The marriage relationship is doubtless a great
mystery, but I am speaking of something deeper still—the marriage of Christ and
his Church. In practice what I have said amounts to this: let every one of you
who is a husband love his wife as he loves himself; let the wife reverence her
husband.
