| 26 Oct 2014 |
| HOW TO BUILD A GREAT MARRIAGE |
| 'Wives, understand and support your husbands...Husbands, go all out in your love for your wives.' Ephesians 5:22, 25 |
| If you want a great marriage, you've got to work at it every day. The Bible gives us God's blueprint for one: 'Be courteously reverent to one another. Wives, understand and support your husbands in ways that show your support for Christ. The husband provides leadership to his wife in the way Christ does to His church, not by domineering but by cherishing. So just as the church submits to Christ as He exercises such leadership, wives should likewise submit to their husbands. Husbands, go all out in your love for your wives, exactly as Christ did for the church--a love marked by giving, not getting. Christ's love makes the church whole. His words evoke her beauty. Everything He does and says is designed to bring the best out in her...And that is how husbands ought to love their wives. They're really doing themselves a favour--since they're already 'one' in marriage. No one abuses his own body, does he? No, he feeds and pampers it. That's how Christ treats us, the church, since we are part of His body. And this is why a man leaves father and mother and cherishes his wife. No longer two, they become "one flesh". This is a huge mystery, and I don't pretend to understand it all. What is clearest to me is the way Christ treats the church. And this provides a good picture of how each husband is to treat his wife, loving himself in loving her, and how each wife is to honour her husband' (vv. 21-33 TM). That's how to build a great marriage! ... If only both people in a marriage could commit to these simple things! |
Tuesday, 28 October 2014
An email I received a few days ago
Monday, 6 October 2014
Better Late Than Never
I am finally taking confirmation classes... Luckily I am not the oldest person attending. Over the next few weeks I will be adding prayers, feelings and thoughts that I feel are relevant to my learning and understanding of God The Father, Son and Holy Spirit. I would like to share my journey on this my Faith Memo blog, which I use to store information, which I can revert back to when I needed.
The first thing I would like to share is a section from the opening prayer from the first session.
Loving God, open my eyes to see Jesus
and to know His purpose for my life. Amen
This very simple prayer gets right to the point for me and is a very useful and good prayer to start my journey with. I do not yet know what my purpose is, but hopefully it will present itself in time, as I am feeling very much like a lost sheep in the universe.
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