Re: [FamilyofGod] Re: Treat Your Husband Like A ~V.I.P.~
thank you
From: GlenR <grayco4@yahoo.com>
To: FamilyofGod@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 3:35 PM
Subject: [FamilyofGod] Re: Treat Your Husband Like A ~V.I.P.~
Good advise, OK I'm biased. I'm a husband. I will be married 30 years next month. As I look into the future, I foresee that I will remain married for as long as the Lord gives us days to be together.
What makes our marriage work is..... giving.
My lovely wife gives of herself to me each day. She cares for my needs and sacrifices her time and effort to take care of me. I in kind give of myself to her and do all I can to give her everything I can. I sacrifice my time and efforts for her.
The Bible teaches that a man should love his wife as Jesus loves the church and gave himself for her. A women is not told to love her husband but to respect him. My wife does respect me which is returned as respect and love which causes her to love me too.
I injured my left hand two years ago. The injury severed both major nerves that control feeling and the muscles in my hand. So I found myself looking at this hand which is 100% part of me but no longer part of me. I actually apologized to my hand as if it were a separate entity from me. I realized this is a perfect picture of marriage. Not the massive damage, terrible sense of loss and pain, Ha Ha, but I was able to see how two can be one flesh and yet separate.
My hand is fully part of my flesh yet separate from me. It still serves me and I still take care of it, but it is separate from me.
My wife and I are one flesh. We are separate people yet we are one united in life and giving all to each other selflessly and sacrifically. But is it really sacrifice when you tend to the needs of your own flesh? No the efforts you give to your own flesh are returned to you. So it is in marriage.
So give, not expecting to receive. If you give and it's not returned, give still. The giving and care will foster and grow trust and love. It's not always pleasant and sometimes it's not easy, but take to heart the words of the apostle Paul in Philipians chapter two.
Phil 2:5 ¶ Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
This IS THE MIND OF CHRIST JESUS!
I recommend reading the whole chapter. This is the secret to great relationships
May the Lord bless you and yours.
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To: FamilyofGod@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 3:35 PM
Subject: [FamilyofGod] Re: Treat Your Husband Like A ~V.I.P.~
Good advise, OK I'm biased. I'm a husband. I will be married 30 years next month. As I look into the future, I foresee that I will remain married for as long as the Lord gives us days to be together.
What makes our marriage work is..... giving.
My lovely wife gives of herself to me each day. She cares for my needs and sacrifices her time and effort to take care of me. I in kind give of myself to her and do all I can to give her everything I can. I sacrifice my time and efforts for her.
The Bible teaches that a man should love his wife as Jesus loves the church and gave himself for her. A women is not told to love her husband but to respect him. My wife does respect me which is returned as respect and love which causes her to love me too.
I injured my left hand two years ago. The injury severed both major nerves that control feeling and the muscles in my hand. So I found myself looking at this hand which is 100% part of me but no longer part of me. I actually apologized to my hand as if it were a separate entity from me. I realized this is a perfect picture of marriage. Not the massive damage, terrible sense of loss and pain, Ha Ha, but I was able to see how two can be one flesh and yet separate.
My hand is fully part of my flesh yet separate from me. It still serves me and I still take care of it, but it is separate from me.
My wife and I are one flesh. We are separate people yet we are one united in life and giving all to each other selflessly and sacrifically. But is it really sacrifice when you tend to the needs of your own flesh? No the efforts you give to your own flesh are returned to you. So it is in marriage.
So give, not expecting to receive. If you give and it's not returned, give still. The giving and care will foster and grow trust and love. It's not always pleasant and sometimes it's not easy, but take to heart the words of the apostle Paul in Philipians chapter two.
Phil 2:5 ¶ Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
This IS THE MIND OF CHRIST JESUS!
I recommend reading the whole chapter. This is the secret to great relationships
May the Lord bless you and yours.
--- In FamilyofGod@yahoogroups.com, TamilianPonnu <tamilianponnu@...> wrote:
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> Marriage Advice & Relationship Help
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> Treat Your Husband Like A ~V.I.P.~
> My husband, Ron, admits that he used to be jerk, but I discovered a secret formula that turned him into a loving husband: I started treating him like a VIP! Ron always wanted me to respect him, but I mistakenly thought he had to earn it and I had to feel it, before I could [...]
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