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Ephesians 5:28-30
Ephesians 5:28-30
If your body doesn’t get nourishment, your body will weaken, get sick and die. But you know from experience that not just the physical part of us needs nourishment, the inner part needs nourishment as well. This includes our emotions. Our emotions must be fed. The trouble is, people don’t do it the way God wants it to be done. Listen to Paul’s instruction in Ephesians 5:28-30, “So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.” This is an interesting comparison, isn’t it? Paul has told the husbands that their love for their wives ought to be a sacrificial love as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for it.
It should be a sanctifying love. The washing of water by the Word. It should be a secure love. Looking forward to a glorious future. Also, it should be a satisfying love. You see, love nourishes us. Love matures us. This word nourish in verse 29 of Ephesians 5 has the idea of maturing. Cherishing has the idea of warmth. He’s talking here about the kind of atmosphere of love in a home that helps us to grow. We are growing in the Lord as we are living in an atmosphere of love. Now this love is Christ-like. The Lord Jesus Christ loved us and loves us and it’s a Christ-like love that we share in the home. It’s a love that beautifies that takes away the spots and the wrinkles. It doesn’t go around criticizing.
“No man ever yet hated his own body” (paraphrase). We do all we can to keep our bodies healthy and strong. Now he’s saying to us as Christian husbands if you care for your wife, you and your wife in Christ are one. You are one flesh in marriage. When you care for her, you care for yourself. When she cares for you, she’s caring for herself. Therefore live in this atmosphere of reciprocal love. Nourish one another. Share love with one another. This is the way we grow in the Lord.
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By Back to the BibleEphesians 5:28-30
If your body doesn’t get nourishment, your body will weaken, get sick and die. But you know from experience that not just the physical part of us needs nourishment, the inner part needs nourishment as well. This includes our emotions. Our emotions must be fed. The trouble is, people don’t do it the way God wants it to be done. Listen to Paul’s instruction in Ephesians 5:28-30, “So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.” This is an interesting comparison, isn’t it? Paul has told the husbands that their love for their wives ought to be a sacrificial love as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for it.
It should be a sanctifying love. The washing of water by the Word. It should be a secure love. Looking forward to a glorious future. Also, it should be a satisfying love. You see, love nourishes us. Love matures us. This word nourish in verse 29 of Ephesians 5 has the idea of maturing. Cherishing has the idea of warmth. He’s talking here about the kind of atmosphere of love in a home that helps us to grow. We are growing in the Lord as we are living in an atmosphere of love. Now this love is Christ-like. The Lord Jesus Christ loved us and loves us and it’s a Christ-like love that we share in the home. It’s a love that beautifies that takes away the spots and the wrinkles. It doesn’t go around criticizing.
“No man ever yet hated his own body” (paraphrase). We do all we can to keep our bodies healthy and strong. Now he’s saying to us as Christian husbands if you care for your wife, you and your wife in Christ are one. You are one flesh in marriage. When you care for her, you care for yourself. When she cares for you, she’s caring for herself. Therefore live in this atmosphere of reciprocal love. Nourish one another. Share love with one another. This is the way we grow in the Lord.