Day 2
by Aaron & Jennifer Smith
Design
His design of the earth moon and stars were for a reason.
God designed marriage with a similar purpose, to teach us about Him and His love for us.
The Bible commands me to love my wife as Christ loves the church.
My motivation to unconditionally love Cori must come from my own intimate relationship with God.
My love is to be motivated by His.
Responsibility
I’m responsible for choices I make. I need to choose to be…
honorable
righteous
loving
Without conditions!
This picture of a marriage is a redemption plan for mankind.
Pursue a marriage that looks more and more like Crist and the church.
Scriptures
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For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God.
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And further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
22 For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23 For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of his body, the church. 24 As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything.
25 For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her 26 to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word. 27 He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault. 28 In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man who loves his wife actually shows love for himself. 29 No one hates his own body but feeds and cares for it, just as Christ cares for the church. 30And we are members of his body.
31 As the Scriptures say, “A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.” 32 This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one. 33 So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
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We love each other because he loved us first.
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Make allowance for each other’s faults, and forgive anyone who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others.
