Husbands love your wives. It's easier said than done. But really, it's easy--if we allow God to do everything for us. Second Eves should get this, most especially Second Adams.
The church has been under attack with broken marriages and families--even marriages and families of ministers. And they just shrug their shoulders about it, hoping the problem would go away. I see many ministers with problem marriages and children, but they give these things little attention, saying there's no perfect marriage and family--that no one is perfect. And I'm tired of hearing these lame excuses because they're not what the Lord says in his Word.
The solution all depends on this: Husband love your wives. Then, wives submit to your husbands. If this is not fulfilled then everything else fails. I've seen marriages that manage to stick around for years, but are nonetheless rotten--because the wife doesn't submit to the husband in all things, and the husband loves the wife just a bit. And they think this is good enough. This is for fallen Adam and Eve, not for second Adams and second Eves.
Remember that Paul likened marriage to the relationship of God and the true church. How should the wife submit to the husband? As how the church should submit to God. How should the husband love his wife? As how God loves the church and gave Himself for her. So, good enough is not enough. It should be perfect, because God is perfect, and the true church is a glorious church, without spot or wrinkle, or any other blemish. The true church is a perfect church.
Husbands love your wives. It all begins there. And this will only work out if both parties are fully surrendered to God, the Author of marriage. Okay, second Eves?
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