Title: For a Happy Family/ Ephesians 5:33
For a happy family Ephesians 5:33
When we get married, before God and the Witnesses, we answer “yes!” to the question, “Will you always promise to love and respect me, whether sick or healthy?” But it is the neglect of this promise that drives many families into crisis and misery.
i. for a happy couple
1. Love your wife as yourself.
“Love your wife as you love yourself, and let the wife fear her husband” (verse 33).
The foundation of the home is affection and respect.
Where do you start expressing affection for your wife?
First of all, you have to show affection before eating at the table. For my wife, cooking is her pride. It is a great comfort when we express our concern for the hard work of our wives at the table.
But the greater affection is to pray for your wife.
Instead of yelling and preaching whenever your wife is having a hard time, you should be a husband who embraces her pain and prays.
2. Respect your husband.
When we respect someone, we shift the center of gravity of our lives to that person.
When a father feels the satisfaction of life, it is when he is respected by his children.
Men feel proud when they are recognized and praised by their wives.
The tragedy of our families today is that respect is disappearing and changing.
II. for a happy family
1. Couples must fear Christ with all their hearts.
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“Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ; wives, submit to your husbands as you would to the Lord” (Ephesians 5:21).
A couple should be in harmony, not male and female. The foundation of the family cannot be found without the faith to fear Christ, and if the foundation of the family is built on the foundation of the faith to fear Christ, the family will not be shaken. What makes husband and wife one is that they truly fear Christ.
“Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain and in vain” (Psalm 127:1)
2. You must strive for maturity.
Maturity is the anticipation of evil or danger before it becomes apparent. Married life also has signs of when the gold thread and peace begin to break. It is a mature person who detects and responds to this in advance.
“Therefore, be careful how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise, saving time, for the days are evil” (Ephesians 5:15).
Maturity is wisdom combined with knowledge.
Married life also requires knowledge.
What you can't learn all your life is the knowledge of your spouse, and acquiring knowledge at any time is the key to happiness.
“The beginning of a strife is like a leak in a spring, and the quarrels will cease before they arise” (Proverbs 17:14).
“House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord” (Proverbs 19:14).
A mature person is a wise person.
Ask the Lord for wisdom and He will give you generously.