I have enjoyed all the MySpace comments about the long beard.
It has actually been trimmed as of last Sunday. Lori gave me a hair cut and I let her trim the beard as well. The whole issue comes down to what one of my good friends (Brock) said in picture comment:
"4 Words to live by
Happy Wife....Happy Life"
Guys you should take note.
Your happiness is in direct correlation with your wife's happiness.
The Apostle Paul writes to the Ephesian Disciples, "husbands love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her ... so husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. HE WHO LOVES HIS OWN WIFE LOVES HIMSELF; no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it ... each individual among you also is to love his own wife EVEN AS HIMSELF (Ephesians 5).
Remember what the Love Chapter (1 Cor 13) says? Among the character of love list is "[love] does not seek its own".
Also in 1 Corinthians Paul writes, "...the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does..."
Ladies the opposite is also true...love, respect, honor, and submit to your husband!
If both husband and wife would "consider one another as more important than himself" there would be no marital disharmony in the Church. "They would know we are Christians by our love"!
Sadly, statistics say that divorce is the same or higher among church-going people.
Christians need to be mentoring one another in how to be the type of Disciples Christ called us to be. Disciples of Christ must be striving to live holy lives, loving those around them, doing good deeds for their family and neighbors.
Take care of your family!
If you are not married, don't get married until you are ready to give up "me" to become "we." This also applies to your hobbies ... if you can't do it together then maybe you need to give it up. Develop hobbies that bring you together not ones that take you in different directions.
My friend Erik Nielson posted a good article by Gordon MacDonald that should check out at:
http://www.accmen.blogspot.com/
Shalom.
 | Currently reading : The Dangerous Book for Boys By Conn Iggulden Release date: 01 May, 2007 |
