For Strong Marriages
by Charles R. Swindoll
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the
church and gave Himself up for her. . . . So husbands ought also to love their
own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself . . .
and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband. ---Ephesians 5:25, 28, 33
Lord, today we are living in a culture that has forgotten
Your pattern for marriage. The world has lost its way because Your Word is
being ignored. We have gotten the threads of that divine tapestry all mixed up,
and the whole thing is a mess. Furthermore, our culture is a total disaster.
The fracturing of homes has become so commonplace we no longer even raise our
eyebrows when we hear of another family going under. We pray, therefore, that
the truths of the words above, presented from Your exacting pattern, the Word
of God, would find root and bear fruit in some lives. We also pray that You'd
give husbands and wives the courage to say, "I am wrong. I am sorry.
Please forgive me. Let's start over." We ask that You would give partners
who hear those words a renewed capacity to believe their spouses, to work
alongside them, to help make Your design a reality.
Thank You, Father, for Jesus, who is here for us, who loves
us, and who modeled sacrificial love on our behalf. Help us, Lord, as we live
out His life in our marriages through the enabling power of Your Spirit.
Through Christ our Lord, we pray. Amen.
See also Genesis 2:23-25; Mark 10:5-9; 1 Corinthians 7:1-9;
Hebrews 13:4.
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