Week 4: Snapshots – Unwavering Commitment

Ephesians 5:25-33

Marriage is not something that happens to us. It is a thing we create. This simple statement has profound implications. It means that how I behave in the marriage and how I treat my wife (or husband) profoundly affects my marriage.

”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 scripture 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.” (NLT)

Husbands are instructed to love their wives with Christ-like love. Paul illustrated this with three comparisons.

In the first comparison, he said that-

1. Husbands are to love their wives with the kind of love with which Christ loved the church (v. 25).



The second comparison

2. Husbands are to love their wives in the same way they love their own bodies (v. 28).


Christian husband, love your wife. Love her by sacrificing your time and energy and resources on her. Love her by lavishing your attention on her. One more thing-

3. Husbands are to love their wives as they love themselves (v. 33).



Paul wrote, "Husbands love your wives." Love them sacrificially. Love them by lavishing your attention on them. And love them by being devoted to them.

Christ-follower marriages require Christ-follower husbands behaving toward their wives with Christ-like love. A Model to the world of Unwavering Commitment!!!