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You Can Learn to Love Your Bride to Life

The family is still the launch pad for propelling young people into society as productive and contributing members of the society. Marriage the way God designed -the framework for the family - is under attack. The kids will one day leave and the two of you will be “empty-nesters." It will be good for her to be able to reflect on how well she was loved all through the child-rearing years and look forward to being courted by you all over again. Couples can fall in love over and over; or at the other end of the spectrum, realize that it was really the children that kept them together and in the loneliness of the empty, lifeless, loveless house, decide to leave the marriage. It starts with you by loving your bride to life.

Marriage is sacred and honorable. Marriage is ordained by God. Marriage is the first institution bestowed on humankind. Marriage is under attack. Marriages are under attack. As I write this, my marriage is under attack. Perhaps that’s why, as reluctant as I am, I am writing this at this time. I realize once again that what I have seen and believed for years is the only reason why my bride and I are still married today. It is my reality. And brother, if you are married, it is your reality too. I’m still being crucified on the cross of marriage. You and I will never experience the pain inflicted upon Jesus inflicted upon us. Even though we are susceptible of being hurt by our wives, we will never hurt like Jesus did. Keep in mind the reason our wives attempt to hurt us is likely because of some unfulfilled promise we made or tasks left undone. We may have done things to hurt them by lying, neglecting or worse yet. We may have stepped outside of the marriage for affection and sex or delved into something else that robbed our wives of the love and intimacy we owe them. There are a myriad of reasons why your wife might try to hurt you. No doubt, you have failed and fallen short. You and I were conceived in iniquity and born into sin. We have a sin nature. So, I know we have “jacked it up.”