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NASB | Ephesians 5:22 ¶ Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Ephesians 5:22 ¶ Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as [a service] to the Lord. |
Bible Question: I know we are not supposed to get divorced, but is it a sin to stay married even though you don't love your spouse? |
Bible Answer: Our Lord has commanded us to love one another: 1 John 4:8 "The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love." 1 John 4:20 If someone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen." Oftentimes, that means loving the unloveable or people that we would rather not love. Not an easy thing to do! What is so wonderful about serving the Lord is that we don't have to love others in our own strength. Romans 5:5 says, "...the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us." A person who is married to someone, whom they do not love, should ask the Lord to let them see that individual the way that He does. Then ask the Lord to help him, or her, love their spouse as much as the Lord does. God is faithful! He will astound you by enabling you to love people that you never could have loved without His grace. Also, love is not just a feeling. Love is an action. We can demonstrate our love to others simply by serving them. We can serve them with a warm smile, a kind word or gesture, or by praying for them and with them. Christ is our ultimate example of what true love is: Rom 5:8 "But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." John 15:13 "Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends." To love others, I must lay down my own self-interests and allow the love of God to flow through me to others. Blessings! prazn |