Over the years I have...
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Over the years I have savored Paul's advice to husbands and wives; his words brought me pleasure, not problems. It doesn't matter to me if the couple in question is totally human or divine/human; the bottom line is loving responsibility and loving commitment. It means realizing that one is part of the other and vice versa. No one who has it "all together" will want to hurt themselves.
A good friend of mine from seminary days, Barbara Rains, once wrote a definition of a good wife. She gave me a copy to use whenever I felt led to share it with someone. She's dead now, but I credit her with the following definition:
What is a good wife?
She is the other side of her husband's self.
It is she who can empathize with him
... can see into his very being
... and become part of him.
... What is a wife?
She, above all, is a woman who knows how to love.
When there is love ... love grounded in a personal relationship with Jesus the Christ ... the rest comes easy. Commitment, submission, obedience, responsibility, and genuine love all come easy when Christ is at the center of married life and life in general.
A good friend of mine from seminary days, Barbara Rains, once wrote a definition of a good wife. She gave me a copy to use whenever I felt led to share it with someone. She's dead now, but I credit her with the following definition:
What is a good wife?
She is the other side of her husband's self.
It is she who can empathize with him
... can see into his very being
... and become part of him.
... What is a wife?
She, above all, is a woman who knows how to love.
When there is love ... love grounded in a personal relationship with Jesus the Christ ... the rest comes easy. Commitment, submission, obedience, responsibility, and genuine love all come easy when Christ is at the center of married life and life in general.
