Undying Love

Last night as I was reading my Bible before going to sleep a thought popped into my head. My children can never do something that would make me stop loving them. God instills an undying love in our hearts from the day we as mothers find out we are pregnant. That got me to thinking of marriage and how many people I know that have divorced. Even in our churches it is not unusual for a marriage to end. It hit me last night that I need to pray daily for that same undying love for my husband!! Rob and I have a wonderful relationship, but IF I don't pray for him daily or be the wife that he needs then I am setting myself up for a dying love! I have seen people who make their children their world and ignore their husbands. Guess what happened when children were no longer in the home?!? Yes, unfortunately the marriage dissolved because they didn't keep their relationship in tact. God says we are to cleave to our spouses {Genesis 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.}  and train our children. {Proverbs 22:6 ¶ Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.}  Many of us are guilty of cleaving to our children and training our spouse! I know I have struggled with this many times because I want my children to be happy and I want them to think of me as their friend also, but when I do that I slack in discipline and training. I want to raise (train) my girls to be keepers at home and prepare them to be the best wife a man could ask for.  {Titus 2:3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behavior as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; 
 4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, 
 5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.} The way I can do that is by being a LIVING example of how a wife and keeper at home should be. I am so thankful that God put this in my mind last night! It will not be easy, but I am going to strive to be a better wife to my husband and live daily to build an UNDYING LOVE for him. Will he still make me angry? Yes, I am sure he will!!! But I can NEVER allow that anger to turn into hate or bitterness at him! Yes, I know the Bible tells our husbands to love us as Christ loved the church, but we have to submit and obey regardless of how our spouse is! { Eph 5:21 ¶ Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. 
 22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 
 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. 
 24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. 
 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 
 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 
 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. 
 28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.} 
I know how hard submission is, but I have learned through the years that when I am submitting to what he wants I am a much happier person and he is too. When we are not submitting to our husband we are in the wrong and God will judge us for that. I am not saying that I have perfected this because ALL of you who know me well can attest to the fact that I have failed miserably many, many times! I have been blessed  with a wonderful husband who loves God and strives to follow after Him. I am now daily going to pray for an undying love for my husband and strive to be a better example to my family and my friends.

I love him with all of my heart!! I pray that I am everything he needs me to be, but most of all I pray that God will help me to grow more and more in love with him each and every day!