Above Rubies Daily Encouragement Blogs
WE CANNOT PLEASE OURSELVES
Today we continue to check out more Scriptures where duty is mentioned:
6. HUSBANDS MUST LOVE THEIR WIVES AS THEIR OWN BODIES
Ephesians 5:28 (AMP): “Even so (read verses 25-27) husbands should and are morally obligated (it is their duty) to love their own wives as (being in a sense) their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. “
This is God’s vision for marriage. His ways are wondrous. But there are two sad things about this Scripture. Firstly, the feminist movement are foundationally against men, especially in marriage. They’d rather eliminate them. How sad that they don’t understand God’s wondrous plan that a husband is to be as concerned about his wife as he is about his own body.
Secondly, it is sad that so many husbands have not been taught their duty and moral obligation from God. When they know it and embrace it, they not only gloriously bless their wives, but their own lives also! Their duty turns into glorious delight!
7. BEAR WITH THE FAILINGS OF THE WEAK
Romans 15:1: ‘We then that are strong ought ( it is our duty) to bear the infirmities of the weak, and NOT TO PLEASE OURSELVES.”
It’s easy to pass by those who are weak and struggling as we get on with our own lives with all our visions and projects But God wants us to take time for the weak and fainthearted—to invite them to our homes, to bear them up, to encourage them, and to hold them up. 1 Thessalonians 5:14 exhorts us to “comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.”
8. WASH ONE ANOTHER’S FEET
You know the incident of Jesus washing His disciples’ feet which is a picture of servanthood and willingly choosing the lowly place. Although Jesus was God and had come from the glory of eternity, He was always willing to take the humble positron. He reminded His disciples that the one who serves is the greatest in the kingdom of God. Therefore, after He washed their feet, He says to them, and to you and me: “Ye call me Master and Lord: and you say well; for so I am. If I then your Lord and Master have washed your feet: ye also ought (it is your duty) to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you” (John 13:13-15).
These things I have been writing about in the last three posts are all so challenging, aren’t they? We know them but are we living them in our daily lives?
More tomorrow.
Be blessed, Nancy Campbell
P.S. Scriptures to look up about being a servant: (Matthew 20:26-28; 23:11; Mark 10:43-45; Luke 7:28; 22:24-27; and Philippians 2:5-8).
