Happily Ever After: Devotions From Time of GraceSample

When You’ve Been Married a While: Husbands, Lead At first glance, the Bible’s instructions for husbands sound right up our alley. The husband is head of the wife? Cool. Honey, go make dinner while I take a nap. But listen how the Bible describes Christian headship: “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her” (Ephesians 5:25). You might say that Christ loved us to death. His death. This is Christ-love for husbands: loving her not for what I get out of it but loving to give, loving to make her life better, loving in terms that make sense to her. This is headship: not exhausting her with my expectations and demands but giving myself up for her. You have bigger muscles and a bigger frame, not to enforce your will but to provide her with a feeling of security. You have less emotional vulnerability so that you can be the rock in her life. Let’s review: What happens when you lead in your home the way Christ leads his people? She will love it. Christ will love it. You will love it.