Love Your Spouse

TOPIC: Love Your Spouse

Date: October 3, 2020

INTRODUCTION:

Love means a profound and caring affection towards someone, while a spouse is someone in a marriage or marital relationship.

Marriage is an institution established by GOD Himself, and He placed it strongly on a foundation made of love. By implication, no home can thrive in the absence of love. It's not possible! We therefore need to make it a priority in our homes and Society generally.

EFFECTS OF LOVE IN MARRIAGE:

i. Peace: When there is genuine love between husband and wife, certainly there would be peace and harmony. A home devoid of peace will definitely know violence, and that's why the crisis in some homes today are highly cumbersome. Love is no doubt, a magnet that attracts peace in the society.

ii. Unity: There is serious need for husband and wife to be united, but before this can occur, love must have taken it's course first. No couple or home can be in oneness in the absence of love. Love comes first, and when it's established, unity is sure.

iii. Progress: Any home where the couple can work together as a team, there would be progress and promotion. Their cooperation would give them room to merge their resources and work together. Their successes are thereby hastened.

iv. Joy: Certainly, love is a catalyst to joyfulness. Once a couple gets it right, nothing but happiness would be their gain. Love is the bedrock of it.

v. Fulfilment: Love helps a couple in achieving their desires, because it would be very easy for them to be in unison and work towards a common goal.

SCRIPTURAL POINTER:

Ephesians 5: 22-33

Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord.

For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the Church, His body, of which He is the Savior.

Now as the Church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the Church and gave Himself up for her.

CONCLUSION:

Love is the backbone of every relationship. It must be embraced at home, because home is the basis of the Church and Society. It's also the light to the feet of a Nation.

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