Love Her

Colossians 3:19

Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.

This verse comes right after the verse we wrote about yesterday.  Being harsh is not being like Christ. Christ is not harsh with us.  He’s loving and kind, in his instruction and care.

This verse is admonishing husbands to love their wives without harshness.

It’s interesting to note that husband and wives have roles to play in the relationship of husband and wife, and neither role is to be overbearing or rude.

And yet…many women and men marry with the desire to control the other, dominate, and assert their own authority, so that they can somehow maintain their own dignity and worth.

That’s not how it works.

It’s a great picture of Christ and the church, when husbands and wives love each other in the way we are instructed to do so in the Bible.

And in order to do this, we must bring before Him our brokenness to allow Christ to heal us, so that we aren’t looking to our spouse to do this for us.  And we must find our identity and worth in our value to Him, so that we can value each other.