How to Love Your Wife As Christ Loves the Church
BY DEREK J. BROWN | Regardless of why or how you got together with your wife, you can, starting today, begin to love her as Christ loves the church and continue to grow in that love.
In the latter half of his letter to the Ephesians, Paul gives Christian husbands a few lofty, intimidating, yet glorious instructions for how we are to live with our wives in our marriages. He begins with a straightforward command: “Husbands, love your wives” (Eph. 5:25). This sentence is not difficult to understand. We don’t need to scour our commentaries or study Bibles to grasp the nuances of the original language or to disentangle the complexities of its syntax. No, the command is simple: we are to love our wives.
Love your wife as Christ loves the church.
Of course, how we love our wives is vital, so Paul continues his instructions by providing us with a model to follow…