A husband will be held to the standard established in Ephesians 5. Any man who has chosen to enter into the marriage covenant with a woman and God has done so with the expectation placed on him that he would live to the same standard of the relationship between Christ and the church. We know that women just like men are not perfect and we knew that before we entered into the covenant of marriage. Christ died for a sinful mankind and continues today to wash the His body with the Word of God as to present us to Himself without wrinkle, stain, or blemish. This relationship is not as a parent training up a child as many husbands might treat their wives as children. This relationship is as a man who is the owner of a precious diamond and who knows he has a treasure in it, he takes care of it and washes it so that it's beauty and value will grow and be preserved. Christ never went to others to talk about the church or chose to embarrass His church in front of the world to make a mockery out of it. He never told the world about His intimacy with the church and what they did in their marriage bed. Christ gave His life, not to gain something in return, but to just give that which was lacking to mankind and that was a full and fruitful relationship with the one and true Living God. The standard that has been set can only be accomplished by a husband who submits His life to Christ and then Christ will fulfill this standard through His vessel. Today, husbands follow the lifestyle of Christ and allow Him to fulfill the standard of you Loving your precious treasure. Be Encouraged!!! Have a wonderful life of obtaining a lifestyle pleasing to God on purpose!!!!!
Ephesians 5
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, 26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, 27 that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. 28 So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church.
Job 1
Prologue
1 In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil. 2 He had seven sons and three daughters, 3 and he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred donkeys, and had a large number of servants. He was the greatest man among all the people of the East.
4 His sons used to hold feasts in their homes on their birthdays, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. 5 When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would make arrangements for them to be purified. Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular custom.
6 One day the angels[a] came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan[b] also came with them. 7 The LORD said to Satan, “Where have you come from?”
Satan answered the LORD, “From roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth on it.”
8 Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.”
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