Marriage

Each year, our church (Watermark) does a "journey" through the Bible. Each year, the "journey" has had a different focus. The first year our church did the Journey, its focus was reading the entire Bible in one year. I couldn't quite keep up! This year's focus is reading through Paul's letters. For each day's passage of Scripture, a church member writes a devotional that corresponds with that scripture. This year, I had the privilege of being assigned Ephesians 5:22-33 which states:

Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord, because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church – he himself being the savior of the body. But as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her to sanctify her by cleansing her with the washing of the water by the word, so that he may present the church to himself as glorious – not having a stain or wrinkle, or any such blemish, but holy and blameless. In the same way husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one has ever hated his own body but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ also does the church, for we are members of his body. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. This mystery is great – but I am actually speaking with reference to Christ and the church. Nevertheless, each one of you must also love his own wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

For just a short insight on how I view this passage, you can read today's Journey Devo. I could have written so much more, but they have a word count limit. I welcome any comments or questions!

Since we're on the topic of marriage, I just want to tell my husband how wonderful you are. You are a complete blessing from the Lord, and I'm so thankful you chose me to be your wife and spend the rest of my life with you. The good times are ridiculously more enjoyable with you in my life, and the hard times are so much easier to endure with you by my side. You encourage me, teach me, and comfort me. I'm eternally grateful for the way you pour out your love for me and seek to put me above yourself. I love you more than words could say!

- Your Adoring Wife