Why does the Bible say, \u2018Husbands, love your wives\u2026 as Christ\u2026 loved the church and gave Himself for her\u2019<\/i>? Because your wife needs to know you love her, think about her, include her in your plans, and that you consider her opinions, needs, and desires. And if you don\u2019t tell her, she won\u2019t know it! So let\u2019s look at how Jesus loved the church, which began with twelve disciples who were flawed human beings, and learn how you should love your wife. <\/p>\n
(1) He loved them unconditionally.<\/i> Was it always easy? No. But instead of nagging His disciples about what they were or were not, He rejoiced, thinking about what they would become when His grace had worked in their lives. Stop and remember the qualities you saw in your wife that initially attracted you to her. Over the years she may have gained a few kilos, added a few new wrinkles, and sometimes seems to be buried under a mountain of housework. But she\u2019s still the same wonderful person you fell in love with. That\u2019s easy to forget, so you must constantly remind yourself\u2014and her\u2014of it. When roses are exposed to frost, they wither and die, but given the right amount of sunshine and rain\u2014they flourish. <\/p>\n
Describing an ideal wife, Solomon writes, \u2018Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her.\u2019<\/i> (Proverbs 31:28 NKJV) Why did these children praise their mother? Because they saw their father do it! So if you\u2019ve been too busy, too self-absorbed, or too distracted, change your ways\u2014and tell your wife how much you love her. (And by the way, wives\u2014that principle works both ways!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Why does the Bible say, \u2018Husbands, love your wives\u2026 as Christ\u2026 loved the church and gave Himself for her\u2019? Because your wife needs to know you love her, think about her, include her in your plans, and that you consider her opinions, needs, and desires. And if you don\u2019t tell her, she won\u2019t know it! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}