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loving your spouse


Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, and I shared a message at church yesterday about how we can help our marriages and relationships stronger and lasting.  I believe that God gives us so much encouragement to be people who love others and are committed to the people we love.


In this message from Ephesians 5 we talked about the essentials of living a life of submission to each other, a life of sacrifice and that we are to choose each other.  I will get to a couple of those later this week in the e-devotions.


Today I accept the challenge to love as Jesus loves.  The reason why we love and the way we are to love was defined by God!


1 John 4:19  NLT  

We love each other because he loved us first.


It is easier to love when we know that we are loved. We were created in His image and living out the character and example God gave us we literally become an image bearer of God because we do what He does.


A person who loves well will think and do for his or her spouse.  Serving is important just as we are told in Ephesians 5, well husbands are encouraged, to go all out in loving our wives.


It is a sincere love, from the heart, that seeks to see her as best and do what brings out the best in others.  That is what godly love finds as the results of choosing to love as God loves


John 13:35  NLT

Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.


Real love reminds the person that loved of their value and worth.  As God brings out the best in us through His love we can and should do the same.  This loved is marked by giving and not taking, encouraging and not punishing, pulling close and not pushing away


1 Peter 3:7  NLT  

In the same way, you husbands must give honor to your wives. Treat your wife with understanding as you live together. She may be weaker than you are, but she is your equal partner in God’s gift of new life. Treat her as you should so your prayers will not be hindered.


Choose to give honor to your wife or your spouse.  By honoring others and getting to know how to love them best our prayers will not be hindered.  That is a promise from God we can claim.


May we be found loving well, bringing out the best in others and showing all who know us that God is so good and full of love!

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