How many of you reverence your husbands? How many of you love your wife as yourself?
Let’s begin with definitions. Reverence means a gesture of respect, showing honor or respect, profound adoring awed respect, to adore, to admire, devotion to, loyalty, commitment, faithful, and steadfast. Love is more than an emotion, most of the time it is an emotionless action that reveals the true nature of love. Love can be defined as affection based on admiration, benevolence, or common interests, devotion, loyalty, faithfulness, steadfast, unwavering, favor, and preference. Both definitions are similar in nature. One tends to lean more to emotions, while the other in action, although they intersect both, which they should.
To reverence your husbands is to be confident in them, to honor not just in front of folks, but in private. To adore in a way that even mistakes are not world-shaking moments of discord, but instead a perfect place of growth that only increases admiration toward him. The world tends to stop when he is present and you do what you can for this man that is successful, that is exalted in the workplace, that is perfectly fitted for you and your home. Okay, okay, I know that seems like a fairy tale, but it’s not. It is reality. Call those things into existence, LOL! But seriously though. It is up to you, no one else to do your part. Do not wait on him to do his part…it is you that you are responsible for, now do your part. Oh but he doesn’t this or blah blah, excusing yourself from what you’re supposed to be doing isn’t being fully honest with yourself. Really you just don’t want to…but you need to. It provides a safe place for him and it helps you too! Oh, trust me that it truly is a win-win.
Now to love yourselves, husbands, it is to provide for you. You make sure you’re not hungry, you’re clothed, your necessities are met without doubt. You love yourself to give more to you than what is required. You protect you, most of the time…the time you put a ladder on a piece of plywood that was across the tops of the pews was not protecting yourself, lol…okay a little sidetracked there. Husbands…love yourselves a little better, LOL! But for real, you take care of yourself, you discover yourself, you look to better yourselves, you provide for yourself, you educate yourself, you do more than is required, you respect and build your good name, you invest, and so forth. So, love your wives the same way. Don’t wait for her to do her part, you are responsible for yours.
When you do this, you will see both of you mutually respecting, loving, and really becoming one…with your own parts to uphold. A well working efficient machine that produces fruit, influences others, and the love overflows to those you touch and encounter.
“For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife [see] that she reverence [her] husband” Ephesians 5:31-33.
“(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, [even] God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were” Romans 4:17.