Mobile Daily Devotional Pst. Fakunle Emmanuel Week 33, Day 4
Wrdnesday, 18 August 2021.
TOPIC: OUR RESPONSIBILITY: TO OUR SPOUSE
Memory Verse: Roman 13:7
“7 Render therefore to all their due: taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor.”
Bible Reading: Eph. 5:21-28.
“21 submitting to one another in the fear of God.
22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
23 For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.
24 Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,
26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word,
27 that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.
28 So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.”
Our next responsibility goes to our spouse, your Husband/wife. That man/woman you decided to live with, deserves some responsibility. Jesus, the husband to the church, loves the church regardless of her fault. The church derailed, misbehaved falls into diverse sins but Jesus, the Husband, still loves the church, so likewise, the husband has responsibility to overlook the shortcoming of the wife. It’s His responsibility to love the woman come what may, make sacrifices on her behalf and be a watch over her.
For the wife, every woman should know that, Jesus is the husband to the church so, the church can’t dictate to Jesus on what to do but can make request. The church submit to the leading of Jesus over her. Church can’t lead Jesus, it’s not possible, the church submit totally to Jesus which is the reason for diversity between church and Jesus presently. Every wife is to submit to the leadership of the husband. The mistake that we see in some homes is making the wife the head because she is the bread winner, No. Can the church be in charge of Jesus? Can the church, with crowd of five million soul, direct Jesus to pray to her? It’s not possible, so, no matter how blessed a wife is, it’s to the glory of God and the glory of her husband. These are the responsibilities of the husband and the wife. They live together, share together, endure together, enjoy together, reason together and make their secrets remain secret. They are to honour and respect one another. It’s their responsibility to protect and watch over their selves.
When one fails in his/her responsibility, it’s goes a long way to discourage the other. How responsible are you to your spouse? Do you find means of settling an argument or you keep finding whose fault it is? Be responsible to your spouse as the church and Jesus are responsible to each other. God bless you.
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