I will be heading to a wedding in just a few hours. So today, I thought it would be a good reminder for those of us who are married and to those who will be making this commitment in just a few hours of what God has to say about marriage. It’s a long passage, but worth review. Do you remember these words?

“And the Spirit makes it possible to submit humbly to one another out of respect for the Anointed.

“Wives, it should be no different with your husbands. Submit to them as you do to the Lord, for God has given husbands a sacred duty to lead as the Anointed leads the church and serves as the head (the church is His body; He is her Savior). So wives should submit to their husbands, respectfully, in all things, just as the church yields to the Anointed One.

“Husbands, you must love your wives so deeply, purely and sacrificially that we can understand it only when we compare it to the love the Anointed One has for His bride, the church. We know He gave Himself up completely to make her His own, washing her clean of all her impurity with water and the powerful presence of His word. He has given Himself so that He can present the church as His radiant bride, unstained, unwrinkled, and unblemished—completely free from all impurity—holy and innocent before Him.

“So husbands should care for their wives as if their lives depended on it, the same way they care for their own bodies. As you love her, you ultimately are loving part of yourself (remember, you are one flesh). No one really hates his own body; he takes care to feed and love it, just as the Anointed takes care of His church, because we are living members of His body. And this is the reason a man leaves his father and his mother and is united with his wife; the two come together as one flesh.” (Ephesians 5:21-31 – The Voice)

Grace and peace be yours in abundance,

Donna