Friday, October 16, 2009

A MODEL FOR HUSBANDS



The bible says that husbands should treat their wives in the same way Jesus treats is disciples. Consider this Bible direction: "husbands, continue your wives, just as the Christ also love the congregation and delivered up him self for it … In this way husbands ought to loving their wives as their own bodies. He who loves is wife loves himself, for no man ever hated is own flesh; but he feeds and cherishes it, as the Christ also does the congregation." –Ephesians 5:23, 25-29.
Jesus' love for his congregation of disciples sets a perfect example for husbands. Jesus "loved them to the end," sacrificing his life for them, even though they were far from perfect. (John 13:1; 15:13) Similarly, husbands are urged: "keep on loving your wives and do not be bitterly with them." (Colossians 3:19) What will help a husband to apply such counsel, especially if it wife at times fail to act with direction? He should remember his own mistakes and what he must do to receive God's forgiveness. What is that? He must forgive does who sin against him, and that includes is wife. Of course, she should do the same. (Mathew 6:12, 14, 15) Do you see why some have said that a successful marriage is union of two good forgivers?
Husbands also do well to note that Jesus always showed consideration for his disciples. He took into account their limitations and physical needs. When they are tired, for example, he said: "come, you yourselves, privately into a lonely place and rest up a bit" (Mark 6:30-32) Wives too deserve thoughtful consideration. The bible describe the as a "weaker vessel" to whom husbands are commanded to assign "honor" Why because both husbands and wives share equally in the "undeserved favor of life" (1 Peter 3:7) Husbands should remember that it is faithfulness, not whether a person is male or female that makes one precious to God. –Psalm101:6.
The bible says that husbands "Who loves his wife loves himself” this is because a man is wife "are no longer two, but one flesh," as Jesus pointed out. (Mathew 19:6) So they must limit their sexual interest to each other. (Proverb 5:15-21; Hebrew 13:14) They can do this if they show unselfish concern for each other's needs.(1 Corinthians 7:3-5) Noteworthy is reminder: "No man ever hated is own flesh; but he feeds and cherishes it."
Husbands need to love their wives as the do themselves, remembering that they are accountable to their own head, Jesus Christ.-Ephesians 5:29; 1corinthians 11:13.
The apostle the 'tender affection that Christ has.' (Philippians 1:8) Jesus' tenderness was a refreshing quality, one that was appealing to woman who became his disciples. (John 20:1, 11-13, 16) And wives yearn for tender affection from their husbands.9

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