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Love your wife...die for her

Classik

Classik

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It was a wonderful sermon. Okay! The teacher that day said: 'It is scriptural to love your wife with all your heart and also die for her (if that is part of what it should take to protect her.' He was greeted with a season of laughter. It kind of sounded weird...but I believe that a partner must be willing to defend his/her life partner.
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Our males kind of found it amusing and weired; our females seemed willing to even die at the moment and prove their love.
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I tell us, honestly, a man or a woman who is not willing to love his/her husband/wife with all his/her heart, defend him/her...and possibly give his/her life for him/her is NOT qualified to be called a true husband/wife.

Some people shared their personal testimonies that day, though. I was deeply empressed. A man said: 'My fellow men mock at me thinking my wife controls me because I try and do everything for her: I cook, I wash, I buy things for us from the market, I drive the kids back home from school - and my wife also helps me a lot.'
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Does anyone agree with my sunday school teacher?
(Do not mind my signature - it is just a joke).:lol
 
Literally dying for a spouse is easy in normal marital relationships. In fact, most people will die for their neighbor's spouse in a crisis. What's hard is surrendering your goals, your ambitions, your comforts, etc. when love demands it. That is the martyred life that is hard to live...that taking up of one's cross on a daily basis and crucifying the desires of the flesh, not the flesh itself.
 
It seems strange that the idea brought out laughter. I honestly can't think of not surrendering my own life for my husband or the children if necessary.

However, Jethro has a good point. While I would like to know that my husband would die for me...what's more important is that he would live for me...live to love, to lead, to build up our life together, to dream with me, to travel through life with...and me for him, of course.
 
handy said:
It seems strange that the idea brought out laughter. I honestly can't think of not surrendering my own life for my husband or the children if necessary.
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Me neither (for my wife that is, lol!).


handy said:
While I would like to know that my husband would die for me...what's more important is that he would live for me...live to love, to lead, to build up our life together, to dream with me, to travel through life with...and me for him, of course.
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Totally well put. This describes the heart of God in marriage perfectly. Two thumbs up for you! :thumbsup:thumbsup
 
handy said:
It seems strange that the idea brought out laughter. I honestly can't think of not surrendering my own life for my husband or the children if necessary.

However, Jethro has a good point. While I would like to know that my husband would die for me...what's more important is that he would live for me...live to love, to lead, to build up our life together, to dream with me, to travel through life with...and me for him, of course.
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It was indeed funny how our sunday schoool teacher put it.
What matters most is our willingness to be there for our husbands and wives at tough times and at all times...
That is one of the reasons, maybe, why unbelievers worship divorse.
 
Classik said:
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Believe it or not, women are moor protective of their husbands than *** :lol
(Sorry if I have caused a problem)
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It is true that women are generally the more insecure part of a marital relationship and guard it more carefully. But that has not been true in my marriage, lol. I have historically been the more insecure one afraid of losing the relationship, disguising that fear and insecurity as a godly interest in the marriage. Thank God that I've learned a lot about myself in 30 years of marriage.
 
Classik said:
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It was indeed funny how our sunday schoool teacher put it.
What matters most is our willingness to be there for our husbands and wives at tough times and at all times...
That is one of the reasons, maybe, why unbelievers worship divorse.
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No question about it. Godly love is the desire for the good of another. Worldly love is the desire for your own good. When the world can't get their desire for their own good fulfilled they bail. They continue on in their relentless search for that which they are sure will please them and bring them the good they desire. God promises goodness and joy and life to the one who loses his life, not to the one who pursues it.
 
John 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

I know my husband would lay his life down for me as well as I for him, but my husband also says he feels sorry for anyone who would try and tangle with me:chair
 
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