tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10880332.post8538775218917084742..comments2023-11-05T03:18:37.731-08:00Comments on life together: Divorce=very UNwiseTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16613060195802747865noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10880332.post-75199358779477331412009-07-30T13:04:43.829-07:002009-07-30T13:04:43.829-07:00Amen to that! Marriage is not easy and why do we ...Amen to that! Marriage is not easy and why do we expect it to be anyway. Ephesians 5:25 says, "Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her." So I am called to lay down all my "self" and serve my wife just as our Savior has served me, to the point of death. That doesn't sound easy. Ephesians 5:33 says, "...the wife must respect her husband." When I look at myself honestly, I can understand why that is such a hard thing to do. As hard as it is to "do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves" (Philippians 2:3), it actually has served to bring more joy into mine and my wife's life to grow in this. I can truly say, I love my wife so much more 13 years and counting than the day I said, "I DO". We have had to continually fight for our marriage and I am determined to keep up the fight. The Gospel tells us in Philippians 2: 5-8 that, "Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in the very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant...." If being a humble servant wasn't too low for the King of the Universe, should it be for us? "Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did." (1 John 2:6) What better place to live this out than in the second most important relationship in a married persons life.Mikehttp://allshouseengineering.comnoreply@blogger.com