The Ideal Husband - Part 1

• What position does the husband occupy in the family?
• "For the husband is the head of the wife" (Eph 5:23)

• What beautiful illustration of head ship precludes any abuse of this prerogative?
• For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. (Eph 5:23)

• To whom will the godly husband be subject?
• But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. (1Co 11:3)

• How should husbands relate to their wives?
• Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter toward them. (Col 3:19)

J. R Miller wrote in "Week - Day Religion". Religion is love, and a religious home is one in which love reigns. There must be love in action, love that flows out of all the house intercourse, showing itself in a thousand little expressions of thoughtfulness, kindness and unselfishness, and gentle courtesy.

There can be very few more beautiful pictures of wedded love that were penned by the wife of Charles Kingsley as she closed her loving memoir with these words : “The outside world must judge him as an author, a preacher, a member of society, but those only who lived with him in the intimacy of every day life at home can tell what he was as a man. Over the real romance of his life and over the tenderest, loveliest passages in his private letters a veil must be thrown, but it will not be lifting it too far to say that if in the highest, closest of earthly relationships a love that never failed – pure, patient, passionate – for six and thirty years, a love which never stooped from its own lofty level to a hasty word, an impatient gesture or a selfish act, in sickness or in health, in sunshine or in storm, by day or by night, could prove that the age of chivalry has not passed away for ever, then Charles Kingsley fulfilled the ideal of a ‘most true and perfect knight’ to the one woman blest with that love in time and to eternity. To eternity, for such love is eternal, and he is not dead. He himself, the man, the lover, husband, father friend – he still lives in God, who is not the God of the dead, but of the living.” And why should not every marriage in Christ realize all that lies in this picture? It is possible, and yet only noble manhood and womanhood, with truest views of marriage and inspired by the holiest love, can realize it.

Surely true head ship is a picture of this type of love. The love that Christ has for his Church

Finally ..................... a thought for today

What matters to Jesus is what's on the inside.