Family #2 Husbands love your wives.

Yesterday we looked at wives, today we look at what God desires from husbands toward their wives. Here is the verse:



Colossians 3:19



19 Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter toward them.



It seems so simple when we read it, don't it? Love your wife. When we are courting, love is so easy it seems. Throw in marriage, jobs, children, bills, and little bit of taking each other for granted and love becomes very hard in some cases. TV and books don't help as they display love in ways that are fantasy land. Love takes work and commitment in good times and they bad. God tells us what love is in 1 Corinthians 13: long suffering, kind, truth, bears all things, hope, enduring and then it also tells us what love is not: envy, prideful, rude ,selfish, provoking, thinking evil, rejoicing in sin, and then ends with LOVE NEVER FAILS!



Now husbands and even wives, take a look at the list again, love does and does not. Evaluate yourself. Do you see any changes that need to be made? Be honest and look at yourself not your spouse....yourself! Like I said before love takes work, and men God expects you to do His Word. Here are some other verses to the husbands:



Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,



Ephesians 5:28



So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.



1 Peter 3:7



Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.



A couple of things here: 1. Love your wife like Jesus loves the church...He died for it. 2. Love your wife like you love yourself....you meet all your needs and many of your wants....do the same for your wife. 3. Give honor to your wife, she deserves it as she is a creation of God....don't miss the warning at the end! Your prayers may have difficulties if you are not being the husband God desires of you! Think on that!



Men, God designed to to lead and love your wife the way he has prescribed! Are you doing that? If not change now! Blessings will follow!



Tom