Lord I am so thankful for Nancy Crawford Pond, you brought her into my life to be an encourager and to help me make it through the tuff times that I have had growing up into a man that seeks to be like you. I do love my wife and it is unconditional love. This means Lord I will give my life for her and I do sacrifice for her pleasure regularly. This comes Father only because you have changed my heart to see the good in her soul. Thank you Father for the most awesome gift of love you packaged in Lilly, the love of my life and I look forward to everyday you have blessed me to live with her on this earth. She is the perfect match for me and brings great joy to my life every day. Thank you again Father for such a lovely gift of love for me. I love you Lilly. "For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of his body, the church. As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything. For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word. He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault. In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man who loves his wife actually shows love for himself. No one hates his own body but feeds and cares for it, just as Christ cares for the church. And we are members of his body. As the Scriptures say, “A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.” This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one. So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband." Ephesians 5:22-33
Posted on: Sun, 06 Oct 2013 11:05:47 +0000