06/21/2025
What is a husband's responsibility to his bride?
Ephesians 5:25-29 NLT... For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word. 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. 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. No one hates his own body but feeds and cares for it, just as Christ cares for the church.
https://bible.com/bible/116/eph.5.25-29.NLT
So, my Life as a husband to my bride is to represent Jesus, as best I can to her. I fall short of this as most husbands do but this is a process of transformation for ALL men who are husbands. Each day we should be learning how to love our wives more and as we become each day more like Jesus, our brides should see in us and feel from us the love that Jesus is extending from heaven to them through us.
Don't give up husbands just because you're not there yet! Submit yourself to God. Ask him how you can more faithfully represent him as an earthly husband and head of your household. I promise you that if you ask he will show you! Your wife and family are that important to him!
