The heart of Jesus revealed God’s love for you and me. Are our hearts revealing God’s love for our husbands?
We are blessed that the Holy Spirit has included many examples of God’s love in the Scriptures.
Hearts Revealing Imperfect Love
“As a face is reflected in water, so the heart reflects the real person.“
Proverbs 27:19 (NLT)
In marriage, it is important to understand the meanings we attach to words. Our husbands have had experiences that we have never had. Their past experiences help to shape the meaning they attach to our words and actions.
Our husbands’ understanding of the word “love” could be very different than the meaning we give to the word “love.”
Showing love to them may mean kissing their lips, holding hands, and physical intimacy.
For us wives, “love” can mean sharing our deepest dreams and values with our husbands. It can also involve praying with each other and studying the Bible together.
When two hearts join, the meanings they have attached to love can overlap and touch each other’s meaning of love. But other meanings can lie outside of that intersection. A couple can explore those meanings outside the intersection to understand each other more fully.
As fallen image-bearers of God, we can’t understand God’s love to the fullest.
Our love is imperfect, but God accepts our love for Him. Then, we ask God to grow our love into a love that is much closer to divine love. God is gracious and hears us. He answers our prayers with abounding grace and love. Our Father is blessed when we ask Him to cause our hearts to reveal His love for our husbands.
Hearts Revealing God’s Love
God is love. All of God’s attributes, actions, and words are wrapped up in that one word, “agape,” divine love. It’s a sacrificial love. God’s love is focused on others. Paul gives us a picture of divine love in 1 Corinthians 13.
“Love is patient, love is kind, is not jealous, does not brag, is not puffed up; it does not act unbecomingly, does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered; it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; it bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails, but if [there are gifts of] prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away.” (1 Corinthians 13:4-8, LSB)
Prayer Reveals Our Hearts
What is your heart’s cry? Do you want a 1 Corinthians 13 love for your husband?
When we ask our gracious Father to grow our love for our husbands, He lovingly answers our prayers.
Pray today. Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal the depth, width, length, and height of God’s love for you and your husband. Believe that God will empower you to reveal His love in your daily thoughts, words, and actions towards your husband.
Father, thank You for our husbands. You have given them to us to wrap them in Your love. We want to love them with Your divine love, reflecting the love You have poured out on us. Grow our love and refine it. We want our love for our husbands to reflect Your divine love. You love is a self-giving love that blesses, sacrificially gives, and honors. Lord, fill us to overflowing with Your wisdom, Your goodness, and Your lovingkindness. Cause Your blessings to overflow onto our husbands. Thank You for how You are working in our marriages and our lives. Amen
How is your heart revealing God’s love for your husband? What steps will you take today?
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