Anglican Daily Fountain Devotional 20th February 2020 – Christian Husband And Wife Relationship
TOPIC: Christian Husband And Wife Relationship
SCRIPTURE: Ephesians 5:21-33
MESSAGE: True Christian marriage is the one where a husband and wife seek to honour Christ as Lord in their marriage by submitting to the word of God willingly. It is a marriage where the authority and Lordship of Jesus Christ is accepted by both husband and wife.
In the beginning, God instituted marriage between a man and a woman for mutual benefit and to bring glory to His name (Gen. 1:26-31, 2:15). Later, sin entered the world and corrupted all things, including the marriage relationship. But through Christ, God is restoring all things to His glory.
We should aim to have Christian marriages and not marriage as practised in the world outside Christ. To achieve this, the word of God has provided the unfailing wisdom to guidea man and his wife. God instructed the woman to submit to her own husband as unto the Lord (v.22).
Anglican Daily Fountain Devotional 20th February 2020 – Accepting and obeying this is a proof of the wife’s love for the Lord and trust in His ability to produce a glorious godly marriage through her. So refusal to submit to a husband’s leadership is refusal to submit to Christ’s authority as Lord.
God commanded the man to love his wife as Christ loves the church (v.25); even when the wife fails to submit, the husband is to still love her; doing otherwise is dishonouring the Lord. Therefore as husband and wife honour the Lord Jesus, the Holy Spirit empowers them to submit to one another and a marriage honourable and pleasing to God results.
PRAYER FOR TODAY
Father thank you for the gift of Christian marriage, help me to always strive to honour Jesus Christ in my marriage. Amen
DAILY QUOTE: “I’ve learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.” – Martha Washington
PREVIOUS: The Christian And The Evil Days