Scripture to Read: 1 Peter 3:7
Finally, today, God, through Peter, tells all husbands how to live and love their wives in 1 Peter 3:7. Similarly, through Paul, God tells husbands the following in Ephesians 5:25, Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her. And again, in Colossians 3:19, Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them. So, each husband is to treat his wife this way, to give honor to his wife. He is to set his wife above all else in life other than Christ. Each husband is to treat his wife with incredible understanding. God also wants each husband to recognize that his wife may be weaker but his equal partner as she is God's gift to him. God commands the husband to love his wife as Christ loves His church. Also, the husband is to sacrifice for his wife, as Christ sacrificed His life for His church. God wraps up the husband's responsibility to love his wife so much that he NEVER mistreats her. Then God clarifies the why for each husband. Each husband must obey all that God has said so his prayers will not be hindered. A husband being in right fellowship with his wife is HUGE. So LARGE is his responsibility that God tells every husband that his prayer life will be shut down if he is not in right fellowship with his wife. God knows that the husband is the representative of Christ in the home; therefore, he needs to walk in all that God commands.
Challenge & Application
1. God clearly tells husbands their responsibility in the marriage relationship. How have you seen this modeled as you have watched Christian couples?
2. How are you either preparing for marriage or walking in obedience in your marriage according to all God commands?
Don’t forget to pray using the A.C.T.S. (Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplication) method!