Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
It’s a command of the holy apostle Paul, not a little friendly take-it-or-leave-it advice. He says in Ephesians, “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for it” (
But then to our surprise, the apostle does not “command” wives to “love your husbands,” no; he commands them, “Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord” (
In both instances the command is not an onerous, painful burden for each to bear if they “walk in love [agape], as Christ also has loved us [with agape] and given Himself for us” (vs. 2). The pre-condition for both husband and wife is a heart-appreciation of what it cost the Son of God to save us—His love at His cross whereon He died our second death.
And the implication is clear: if that heart-appreciation of the love of Christ is not there in the heart, he or she will not, cannot, be happy in the
Even though wife is not commanded to “love” her husband sexually, what First Corinthians 13 says about agape will control her heart: she will “suffer long” and be “kind,” will not “behave rudely,” will not be “provoked,” will “think no evil,” will “rejoice in the truth,” “bear all things,.... hope all things, endure all things,” will “never fail” (cf vss. 4-8). She will not wound her husband; she will make him happy. Paul, who himself “hopes all things,” seems to believe that if this Christlike compassionate kindness on her part is there in her heart, the miracle of conjugal love will be re-awakened. The submitting commanded will be her greatest joy so long as they both shall live.
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