PRACTICAL WAYS TO LOVE YOUR SPOUSE LIKE NEVER BEFORE
Bisi Adewale
Wives are commanded to love their husbands.
“That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed”. Titus 2:4
The Bible emphasizes the need for men to love their wives because women find it easier to love their husbands.
In many places in the scriptures; men are admonished to love their wives. “Husbands love your wives and do not be bitter against them” Colossians 3:19.
Husbands love your wives even as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for it.
‘’So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies, he that loveth his wife loveth himself for no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church.
Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself, and the wife see that she reverence her husband” (Ephesians 5:25,28,29,33.)
As the woman submits herself to her husband and loves him, the husband must also love his wife with all his hearts and never be bitter against her. If you love your wife, the Bible says you are simply doing yourself a favour.
LOVE IS A CHOICE
Man chooses to love or not to love. It is a choice, and if a man walks away from his marriage he is simply saying, “I choose not to be in love again, I choose to hate? The wife is not the issue, it is the man’s choice. If he says “Our love is dead, he is telling lies for love never dies (1 Corinthians 13:8), you simply choose to hate. Love never fails but people do. When there is a problem at home, marriage is not the problem, but the people that are involved in it.
PRACTICAL WAYS TO LOVE
? Love sacrificially: Make the sacrifices, do something that is not easy for you to do.
Do something for your wife that she hates to do (e.g. cleaning the toilet, washing the clothes)
? Love socially: Treat your wife as your best friend, joke with her, take a walk with her, holding each other’s hands.
? Love Emotionally: Compliment your wife always, women can never be tired of this. Somebody said “women are like gigantic sponges, you can fill them up each day with compliments but the next moment the compliments are gone and you need to start all over again”
? Love Physically: Bring home a special gift for your wife.
? Hug your wife tightly and say I love you.
? Defend her before family and friends.
? Do the dishes tonight.
? Celebrate her birthday specially.
? Get a copy of my book Fight for That Marriage for more on this.
Both husband and wife should become “Producers” of love, not “Consumers” Outdo each other with positive deeds, fight a good fight of love with good corrective measure to satisfy each other. Let pleasant surprises fill the void of each other. Complement each other, celebrate each other
© Bisi Adewale 2020
