Posted on 10/02/2020 6:01:34 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska
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Bible in a Year:
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.
It wasnt quite dawn when my husband rose from bed and went into the kitchen. I saw the light flip on and off and wondered at his action. Then I recalled that the previous morning Id yelped at the sight of an intruder on our kitchen counter. Translated: an undesirable creature of the six-legged variety. My husband knew my paranoia and immediately arrived to remove it. This morning hed risen early to ensure our kitchen was bug-free so I could enter without concern. What a guy!
My husband awoke with me on his mind, putting my need before his own. To me, his action illustrates the love Paul describes in Ephesians 5:25, Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. Paul goes on, Husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself (v. 28). Pauls comparison of a husbands love to the love of Christ pivots on how Jesus put our needs before His own. My husband knows Im afraid of certain intruders, and so he made my concern his priority.
That principle doesnt apply to husbands only. After the example of Jesus, each of us can lovingly sacrifice to help remove an intruder of stress, fear, shame, or anxiety so that someone can move more freely in the world.
What intruder might God be asking you to address to help another? How might you allow someone to help rid your life of certain intruders?
Dear God, thank You for the gift of Your Son whos removed the intruder of sin from my life and reconciled me to You!
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Wow it seems I cannot beat these folks!
Hi Everybody!
(((HUGS)))
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"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." |
Never though I would look back to the Army enlistment as the good old days.
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Hey, ConorMac...just sitting and FReeping.
Getting in a few rides in what’s left of the season!
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