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Wednesday, June 21, 2017

family

Opening Prayer: Lord Jesus, your love for us is complete and extravagant and unconditional.  It is all about giving rather than getting.  May our love for one another be the same.  Amen.

Scripture: Ephesians 5:21-33

Journal: How is God drawing out your beauty or strength these days?  How are you doing that for others?  How are you doing that in your family?  Your marriage?  How has Christ loved you?  How is that a guide for how you love others?

Reflection: Out of respect for Christ, be courteously reverent to one another.
    Wives, understand and support your husbands in ways that show your support for Christ. The husband provides leadership to his wife the way Christ does to his church, not by domineering but by cherishing. So just as the church submits to Christ as he exercises such leadership, wives should likewise submit to their husbands.
     Husbands, go all out in your love for your wives, exactly as Christ did for the church—a love marked by giving, not getting. Christ’s love makes the church whole. His words evoke her beauty. Everything he does and says is designed to bring the best out of her, dressing her in dazzling white silk, radiant with holiness. And that is how husbands ought to love their wives. They’re really doing themselves a favor—since they’re already “one” in marriage.
    No one abuses his own body, does he? No, he feeds and pampers it. That’s how Christ treats us, the church, since we are part of his body. And this is why a man leaves father and mother and cherishes his wife. No longer two, they become “one flesh.” This is a huge mystery, and I don’t pretend to understand it all. What is clearest to me is the way Christ treats the church. And this provides a good picture of how each husband is to treat his wife, loving himself in loving her, and how each wife is to honor her husband. (Ephesians 5:21-33, The Message)

Prayer

Closing Prayer: May we, O Lord, love those in our very own families with the same love and kindness and compassion with which we have been loved by you.  Amen.

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