What's up everybody? I stumbled on this the other day when I was doing my devotions. I came across this particular passage on my youversion devotion by Charles Spurgeon. Spurgeon is one of the greatest ministers to ever live in England. Well anyways this one is mostly for the Ladies BUT the guys can also learn greatly from this especially if we want to become better men for our future life partner. Speaking off of personal experience I have heard plenty of times girls calling guys 'dogs', 'dirty', or some kind of word to put down guys and categorize them as all being the same way, and to tell the truth there are a lot of guys nowadays that really are dogs. They try to be like the people they see in the media, the actors, some athletes, some celebrities, and majority of the rappers in the music industry. They buy into the whole get money, get all the girls you can get, look for the 'bad' one scheme. Lusting after every girl they see and deciding to try and pursue that girl just so they can have sex with her. So when majority of guys buy into the lie which tells them that's the most this life has to offer, the girls who experiment with these guys and end up being heartbroken usually have a bad taste, and a bad impression of guys. They never try to find a guy who is trying to keep his soul clean and trying to be everything that God had intended him to be. Like a guy that is mentioned in this upcoming scripture.
Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her."
Here is what Spurgeon says.......
"What a golden example Christ gives to his disciples! Few masters could venture to say, "If you would practise my teaching, imitate my life;" but as the life of Jesus is the exact transcript of perfect virtue, he can point to himself as the paragon of holiness, as well as the teacher of it. The Christian should take nothing short of Christ for his model. Under no circumstances ought we to be content unless we reflect the grace which was in him. As a husband, the Christian is to look upon the portrait of Christ Jesus, and he is to paint according to that copy. The true Christian is to be such a husband as Christ was to his church. The love of a husband is special. The Lord Jesus cherishes for the church a peculiar affection, which is set upon her above the rest of mankind: "I pray for them, I pray not for the world." The elect church is the favourite of heaven, the treasure of Christ, the crown of his head, the bracelet of his arm, the breastplate of his heart, the very centre and core of his love. A husband should love his wife with a constant love, for thus Jesus loves his church. He does not vary in his affection. He may change in his display of affection, but the affection itself is still the same. A husband should love his wife with an enduring love, for nothing "shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." A true husband loves his wife with a hearty love, fervent and intense. It is not mere lip-service. Ah! beloved, what more could Christ have done in proof of his love than he has done? Jesus has a delighted love towards his spouse: He prizes her affection, and delights in her with sweet complacence. Believer, you wonder at Jesus' love; you admire it--are you imitating it? In your domestic relationships is the rule and measure of your love--"even as Christ loved the church?"
Listen to the song and listen closely to the message the song is trying to get across.
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