One for the husbands...

I am a visual learner, so I usually like to have a picture to help communicate the main point of my posts.  Today, however, I am going to have to do my best with words only.  I looked and looked, but there is no picture I can find that would do this post justice.  You see, yesterday I was meditating on this verse: "This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you.  There is no greater love than to lay down ones life for ones friends." John 15:12-13

What a powerful statement for those of us who have placed our faith in the Savior of the world, Jesus Christ.  I have many people in my life that I call my friends, but yesterday only one of them was on my mind....my best friend- my wife, Jennifer Farris.  As I was meditating on this verse and how it related to my role as a husband, I realized that so often I fail at serving my wife.  I mean, as a husband, this should be my number 2 priority in life next to serving Jesus, but I find that often times I am more self-serving than anything.

As husbands, you and I have a huge responsibility to love and serve our wives, to train our children in The Way, to lead our families with gentleness and tenderness.  There is no example to follow except that of Jesus.  No one has sacrificed more, lived more self-less, and loved more than Him.  As I learn to receive His love more and more each day, I also learn more and more how to give this self-less love to my wife.  You see, you cant give what you dont have.  If I am not able to receive true self-less love from Christ, I have none to give to my wife.  It takes intentional time with Jesus to know and receive His love.  The simple word for that is "relationship".  A friend once told me that the best thermometer of your relationship with Jesus is your relationship with your wife....is your marriage cold, lukewarm, hot, or boiling???