(from my journal, 8/23/15) Today's devotion via DEVOS app (available for iOS and Android) was quite eye-opening. The passage reads:
You will desire to control your husband but he will rule over you.
--Genesis 3:16
The corresponding explanation said that Eve's punishment for eating the apple in the Garden of Eden was this (husband rule over wife). Instead of harmony between man and woman, we'll now have the battle of the sexes -- "the man who was to lovingly care for and nurture his wife would now seek to rule her, and the wife would desire to wrest control from her husband." TO BE CLEAR, Genesis 3:16 IS NOT A BIBLICAL COMMAND FOR MEN TO DOMINATE WOMEN! (Or vice versa for that matter.) Rather, what was written in the verse was a prophecy of the effect of the original sin on the two sexes :( So what then is the ideal relationship of man and woman in marriage? Here's the answer from Ephesians 5:
Wives submit to your husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ is the head of the Church; and He is the Savior of the body. Therefore, just as the Church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself for it, that He might sanctify and cleanse it ..... So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. --Ephesians 5:22-23
It is further emphasized in Ephesians 5:21 that husbands and wives should have MUTUAL SUBMISSION to one another:
Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
To sum up, the command is just basically to love one another as you love yourself, or as Christ loves you and the Church. The "Golden Rule" in a nutshell if you're not a Bible reader ;-)
P.S. I shared this devotion to Labsie and he seemed receptive to it :) I also read an article on how a husband should love his wife in GotQuestions.org --> love her as Christ loved His Church, i.e. HE gave up His life for it. Labsie seemed a bit o.O ~ probably not ready to give up his life for me, haha!
P.S. I shared this devotion to Labsie and he seemed receptive to it :) I also read an article on how a husband should love his wife in GotQuestions.org --> love her as Christ loved His Church, i.e. HE gave up His life for it. Labsie seemed a bit o.O ~ probably not ready to give up his life for me, haha!