SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/20/2019
2:00 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-5 “Intro
into the Role of the Husband”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Eph. 5:25-33
Message of the verses: “25 Husbands, love
your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, 26
so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with
the word, 27 that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory,
having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and
blameless. 28 So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies.
He who loves his own wife loves himself; 29 for no one ever hated his own
flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as
Christ also does the church, 30
because we are members of His body. 31 FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS
FATHER AND MOTHER AND SHALL BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE
FLESH. 32 This mystery is great; but
I am speaking with reference to Christ
and the church. 33 Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his
own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects
her husband.”
In
our last SD we spoke of the different sins that are found in the OT, especially
in the first book of the OT, and as we look at our society today we find that
those very sins that we mentioned in our last SD are even looked up to as being
okay. Remember what Romans 1:32 says “and
although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things
are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval
to those who practice them.” When we
look at young people who are about to get married and are both virgins in today’s
world they are laughed at. When I was a
youngster there were hardly any people living together who were not married,
and not this is pretty much a normal thing to do, as it seems that they want to
try marriage out and see if it will work or not. As we think about all of these sinful things
we know that it is Satan who is behind them as he continues to try and weaken
the family.
What
I desire to do at this point in this introduction is to quote the very last
paragraph in MacArthur’s commentary as this is pretty much a normal thing for
me to do as in this paragraph we will see the outline in which we will
follow.
“In
Ephesians 5:25-33 Paul continues to describe the godly and moral life of the
believer who is filled with the Holy Spirit and who is mutually submissive ‘in
the fear of Christ’ (v. 21). As he has
already made clear (vv. 22-24), God has ordained the husband to be head over
the wife. But the emphasis of the rest
of the chapter is not on the husband’s authority but on his duty to submit to
his wife through his love for her.
(Verses 25-31 explain the manner of that love and verses 32-33 reveal
its motive.”
Spiritual meaning for my life today: To remember the importance of loving my wife
as seen in this section.
My Steps of Faith for Today: To continue to be filled with the Holy Spirit
so that I can be humble as I live out my walk with the Lord, and as mentioned
being humble means I am filled with the Holy Spirit, and this will enable me to
love my wife as Christ loves the church.
Today’s quotation from “Love in Action”
“I.
Changing Lives…By Encouraging You World”
“Love is
the one ingredient of which our world never tires and of which
There is
never an abundance. The world will never
outgrow its need for love.”
C. Neil
Strait
8/20/2019 2:19 PM
No comments:
Post a Comment