How To Love Your Wife

With Easter only a month away I have been thinking about the close comparison that the Apostle Paul makes between the husband-wife relationship and the Christ-Church relationship.  In his epistle to the Ephesians (5:22ff) he exhorts husbands to love their wives in the same way that Jesus demonstrated his love for the Church in giving Himself up for her.  While most men probably would heroically give up their own lives to save their wives', this does not seem to be the main point of Paul’s teaching. 

Help My Unbelief

In my last post, A Crumb Is Enough, I ended with a verse from the context of another story, a praying father who had suddenly realized just how weak his faith was.  Unlike the woman who believed that just a crumb of Jesus’ power was enough to cast out the demon from her daughter, this man had brought his son to Jesus’ disciples begging them to cure him of a similar affliction only to hit a stone wall.  They could not help him. 

A Crumb Is Enough

Do you have a family dog?  If you haven’t trained him to do otherwise, where will he be when you sit down at the table for a meal?  Exactly!  Right next to or under the table.  And if there are children, what will they be tempted to do?  Obviously, things can get quickly out of hand when they start slipping food to him.  Even in our household with no children but with my 99-year-old mother-in-law who occasionally likes to feed her “pal” Mo morsels from her plate we sometimes have a challenge.  Most of the time, Mo knows to stay away from the table at mealtimes, but the instant he thinks we’re finished he rushes over and begins to search for possible crumbs that may have fallen to the floor.

Admin Update

Last Sunday night when I posted “It’s More Than I Can Handle,” I did not receive an email notification.  I am wondering if you did.  If you receive this posting as an email notification would you do me the favor of forwarding it to me at harrill@earthlink.net.  Thanks so much for your help.  – Hu