Wide, Long, High, Deep

You want to know how much we are supposed to love our spouse? Check out Ephesians 3:16-19 – can we “grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ”? What can I do today to show my wife this measure of love? What can you do? Go do it.

What it means to be a successful father…

I got this from an e-mail newsletter from FamilyLife.com today. I printed this off and put it in a place where I will see it every day!

What it means to be a successful father…

• A successful dad is gripped with responsibility to lead his family … called by God and given the ultimate task of being the leader of his family unit. He leads in a way that makes it easy for his family to follow.
• A successful dad is a manager … keeping his children under control, while helping them to anticipate and overcome the dangers of the culture (I Timothy 3:4).
• A successful dad is a minister to humanity … by being prayerfully dependent on God.
• Finally, a successful dad is a model to his family with godly skill in everyday living. Dad, you are to create in your children an ability to live life the way God intended for it to be lived.

What would it be like to be married to Jesus?

With all the Da Vinci Code stuff going around about Jesus being married, it brings up more than curiousity about whether or not that’s true – to me, it makes me think, “What would it be like to be married to Jesus?” Could you imagine being the wife of Jesus? That would have to be the luckiest wife in the world! To be loved beyond measure; to be put first in everything; to be honored, forgiven, lifted up, praised, supported, served…like no one has ever been before or would be after.

That’s how we’re supposed to treat our husband or wife today. Jesus was the perfect example to model our marriage after. Ephesians 5:21-33 explains it perfectly. If we strive to be more like Jesus in our marriage, the results will be awesome! I have seen, first-hand, the results of Jesus’ characteristics being applied to marriage. Anne and I don’t have a perfect marriage (I don’t know of anyone who does), but when we model Jesus, it can’t go wrong.