Jesus was Called..... To lay down His life for His Bride, -the Church.
Men, we are called to emulate this same "laying down" our lives for our wives (present or future to be) - our 'Earthly Brides' ....(while we 're 'passing through' on this 'human journey' as 'Spiritual Beings'.
Men are 'supposed' to be a physical representation of what Christ has done for each of us. (His' Hand&Feet, -in His absence...)
* As we men do this, we WILL experience the 'Love of the Father'.....!
* Wives will consequently also experience the 'Truly Unconditional' Love of the Father.... -as manifested by their husbands, -in doing this.
Most of us men fight this process due to our own insecurities, independence, pride and ego.....
However, it is the very laying down our lives that allows us to connect to the Father just as Jesus connected to His Father.
It is in the sacrificial, "Free Will Act" that this 'Divinely' occurs.....
This activates in the woman a response of love that allows the man to experience a deep love that is rooted in the Father but channeled from the wife, the one we lay our lives down for.....!
Jesus did not feel something was being taken from Him because He chose to give it willingly.
Conversely, if husbands lay down willingly their lives, they will not feel something is being taken.
It is when husbands defend, negotiate and withdraw from the needs of a woman that it negates this process. When we think we (men &/or women), -are being used or manipulated against our will, we believe others are trying to control us and we resist. Jesus did not do this.
He gave willingly....! In Obedience...to the Will of His' Father.....(that is also :"Our Father which art in Heaven...." )
Men must realize they are the 'initiators' called to lay down their lives for their wives.
Women respond to this sacrificial act by giving their heart and physical love ('Sex') to their husbands..... (the one & only, -which the women then Intimately Desire with ALL of their Heart)
Both husband and wife experience the 'Ultimate Unconditional Love of the Father' when this happens...... In 'Earthly Terms' .......This is one of the most 'Underrated' & 'Underutilized, Illusive Love-that-deeply-Satisfies' Total Experiences, -you'll EVER have!
Giving up our lives for our wives feels like just that - 'giving up our life..'
We give up rights, privileges, and desires....
We focus only on them....
When we become dead, God loves us by giving us the desires of our heart.
(This is a MUCH misunderstood paradoxical 'Christian Spiritual Law' .... "We give up life, in order to gain it...."
You are NOT required to try & 'logically understand' this..... It is a 'Spiritual Phenomena' that can ONLY be 'Alive & Grow' in your 'Daily Walk with the Lord' , AFTER your 'Heart & Mind' (Spirit) has been 'miraculously transformed' by the 'Intervention of the Holy Spirit'....in your '100% surrender of YOUR Life, to that of 'Obediently Sitting at the Feet' of Jesus Christ' )"For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it" (Matthew 16:25)..
-This is what it means when Jesus laid down His life for His bride.
-This is what it means when Paul said: "Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, 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" (Eph 5:25-28).
-This principle is key to impacting the the Christian Family which has been greatly wounded by a failure to understand this principle.
-This has also 'wrongly' led men and women to become slaves, - instead of 'Real' sons and daughters of our Heavenly Father.
If you are a 'Real Manly Husband (.....to be), commit yourself..... NOW ? ........to.......
'Laying down your Life for your Bride....'
Sela.
(Please keep me posted (Comments)......about your 'Success Rate' )
1 comment:
Very nicely put. We must give whatever it is we want, unconditionally, selflessly, and then it will come back to us tenfold. The same goes for the ladies, by the way! Give yourself to your husband as selflessly and completely as Jesus gave himself to us. It is only when we "forget" ourselves and our own needs, wants and issues, that God's light can shine through us clearly.
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