Doing Our Parts

In the Bible, husbands and wives are given very specific commands. It's up to each of us to obey those commands.

As Christians, we are given very specific commands, and it's up to us to obey them. If we love God, we will obey them.

If a husband loves his wife, he will do his part of the command.

If a wife loves her husband, she will do her part of the command.

It's not my job as a wife to FORCE my husband to do his part. Nagging him won't accomplish anything, it will just strain things further.

It's not my husband's job to FORCE me to do my part. If he loves me like he loves his own flesh, he will nurture me and take care of me- never raising his hand in anger to me.

A harmonious marriage is when two imperfect people do their best to follow the commands and instruction that God lays out in his Word.

That means that I submit and reverence my husband because I WANT to- not because I am being FORCED to. Because I love God and his ways and want to follow them.

It means my husband loves me and cherishes me because he WANTS to, not because he is being FORCED to. Because he loves God and his ways and wants to follow them.

Yes, marriages like this do exist because I am in one.

It's also not hard to accomplish. Anyone with a basic understanding of Biblical principles can attain it- it's not a sparkly unicorn marriage that just doesn't exist.

God's principles aren't grievous or burdens to be born. They are there to give us the happiest life possible here on earth.

The same goes for teens. They have specific commands and yes, some obey their parents in the Lord because they WANT to. My husband and I were like that growing up, and we are seeing our teenagers choose the same thing, as well.

Happy homes exist. They aren't unheard of, they aren't fantasy, and yes- they CAN be your reality if you follow God's principles.

Ephesians 5:22-33

22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

31 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.

32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.