And this is life eternal, that they might know You, the only true God and Jesus Christ Whom You have sent.
God has not given us a spirit of fear, but the Spirit of power,love and a sound mind.
Joint-heirs of the grace of life implies equality. This is true equality.
This also implies great benefit, excellent opportunity, perfect harmony
and unity. The husband seeks to help, protect, cherish and honor his wife.
The wife also seeks to acknowledge, value, enjoy and love her husband.
The following verse describes such a union:
Finally, all of you should be harmonious, united [...]
MELODY
Speak out to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs
offering praise with voices and instruments and making melody with
all your heart to the Lord,
At all times and for everything giving thanks in the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ to God the Father.
(Ephesians 5.19 and 20).
POINTS FOR MEDITATION AND PRAISE
1) The importance of music [...]
LOVE
Therefore be imitators of God (copy Him and follow His example),
as well-beloved children (imitate their father).
And walk in love (esteeming and delighting in one another) as Christ
loved us and gave Himself up for us, a slain offering and sacrifice to
God (for you, so that it became a sweet fragrance.
But immorality (sexual vice) and impurity (of lustful, wasteful [...]
EXPERIENCE GOD’S LOVE
May Christ through your faith dwell
in your hearts! May you be rooted
deep in love and founded securely
on love,
That you may have the power and
be strong to apprehend and grasp
with all the saints, (the experience
of that love) what is the breadth
and length and height and depth.
(Ephesians 3. 17 and 18).
POINTS FOR MEDITATION
AND PRAISE
1) God’s love [...]
WIFE
Be subject to one another
out of reverence for Christ.
Wives, adapt yourselves
to your own husbands
as a service to the Lord.
(Ephesians 5.21&22).
However, let each man of you
(without exception) love his wife
as being in a sense his very own self,
and let the wife see that she esteems
and loves him.
(Ephesians 5.33).
MARRIED
Husbands, love your wives,
as Christ loved the church
and gave Himself up for her,
So that he might sanctify her,
having cleansed her by the
washing of water with the Word,
That He might present the church
to Himself in glorious splendor,
without spot or wrinkle or any such
things (that she might be holy, perfect).
Even so husbands, should love their
wives as (being [...]
There is no fear in love
(dread does not exist),
but full-grown, complete
and perfect love throws
away fear and expels every
trace of terror.
(I.John 4.18a).