Did You Hear the Love?

[ollie]

Husbands love your wives even as Christ loved the Church.

Ephesians 5:25.  Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

Wow, that is a heap of responsible love for a man toward his spouse. That is the ultimate love required of husbands. Christ says there is no greater love than for one to lay down ones life for friends. In thiis verse Christ is telling husbands to have this same love. The love he has for His church. The giving of Himself for it. For the wife in the case of husbands.  

Can anyone think of any Bible verse that requires anything of a wife toward her husband?

Ollie

[sincereheart]

Can anyone think of any Bible verse that requires anything of a wife toward her husband?
Here's a few.....

Ephesians 5
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.
33....and the wife must respect her husband.  

I had heard a discussion on the radio some time ago about this. It was noted that men are required to love their wives and the wives are required to respect their husbands. The speaker brought up an interesting point about men and women and what was important to them:
Women NEED to be loved and men NEED to be respected.

Just an interesting side.....

[Shylynne]

1Pe 3:6  Sarah, for instance, taking care of Abraham, would address him as "my dear husband." You'll be true daughters of Sarah if you do the same, unanxious and unintimidated. [msg]

 

[ollie]

Can anyone think of any Bible verse that requires anything of a wife toward her husband?
Here's a few.....

Ephesians 5
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.
33....and the wife must respect her husband.  

I had heard a discussion on the radio some time ago about this. It was noted that men are required to love their wives and the wives are required to respect their husbands. The speaker brought up an interesting point about men and women and what was important to them:
Women NEED to be loved and men NEED to be respected.

Just an interesting side.....

That is an interesting aspect. The husband and wife, one in marriage. Giving love and receiving respect. Giving respect and receiving love. And at the same time husband and wife are one in Christ submitting one to another, and all in Christ, where there is neither male nor female.

Ollie

[ollie]

1Pe 3:6  Sarah, for instance, taking care of Abraham, would address him as "my dear husband." You'll be true daughters of Sarah if you do the same, unanxious and unintimidated. [msg]

 

That is a good verse. All are daughters of Sarah if they do well. The doing well being somewhat that of wife being Christ like in respect to husband.

There is another verse up front of that one that places a responsibility on the faithful wife of a husband that has not obeyed the Word.

 1 Peter 3:1.  Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

There is another verse in one of the Corinthian letters that states an unbelieving husband is sanctified by a believing wife and visa/versa.

Those sre great verses in 1 Peter. Thanks for bringing them to remembrance.
What a wonderful relationship God has given to men and women in marriage if in Christ and His word.

Ollie

[sincereheart]

It was a busy morning, approximately 8:30 am, when an elderly gentleman, in his 80's, came in to have sutures (stitches) removed from his thumb. He stated that he was in a hurry as he had an appointment at 9:00 am. I took his vital signs and had him take a seat, knowing it would be over an hour before someone would to able to see him.

I saw him looking at his watch and decided, since I was not busy with another patient, I would evaluate his wound. Upon exam, I saw that it was well healed, so I talked to one of the doctors, got the needed supplies to remove his sutures and redress his wound.

While taking care of his wound, we began to engage in conversation. I asked him if he had a doctor's appointment this morning, as he was in such a hurry. The gentleman told me no, that he needed to go to the nursing home to eat breakfast with his wife.

I then inquired as to her health. He told me that she had been there for a while and that she was a victim of Alzheimer Disease.

As we talked, and I finished dressing his wound, I asked if she would be worried if he was a bit late.

He replied that she no longer knew who he was, that she had not recognized him in five years now.

I was surprised, and asked him. "And you still go every morning, even though she doesn't know who you are?"

He smiled as he patted my hand and said. "She doesn't know me, but I still know who she is."

I had to hold back tears as he left. I had goose bumps on my arm, and I thought, "That is the kind of love I want in my life."
~unknown