She will be the only one you have chosen to be your wife. Out of all the women in the world, she alone will be “the wife of your youth,” to whom God Himself will hold you accountable as the witness of your union, according to the prophet Malachi (2:13-16). Moreover, as we learn from the Garden of Eden, she will uniquely be the one God Himself has joined to you. Therefore, because she is your choice, you must learn to love her.Īnd that brings us to the second half of our proverb: “Choose your love, and love your choice.” Of no other woman will you be able to say, “God has granted me this woman.” Regardless of how much her looks or personality may change (and both will!), these two facts will remain. Now regarding love, where do we start? So much could be said! Perhaps the broadest thing is the unique way that we as husbands can imitate Jesus in a marriage.
Just as He did not wait for us to become lovely before He loved us and died for us (Ephesians 5:25), so also, we have the privilege to love our wives, even when they are unlovely. That especially is Christ-like love, and Christ in us can do this. And then, no matter what it costs us initially, we have the privilege to seek her true beauty in holiness, just as Jesus Himself sanctifies and washes His church that “He might present to Himself in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing but that she would be holy and blameless” (Ephesians 5:27). It is in keeping with this general purpose of Christ for His own wife, that I want to stress to you one aspect about love: Love does what is right. #Unmarried man v attend jesus undistracted freeĪccording to Paul, the apostle of this Christ, love “does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth” (1 Corinthians 13:6).
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