Quote of the Day

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her...(Eph 5:25)

Gave himself to die to redeem it.  The meaning here is, that husbands are to imitate the Redeemer in this respect.  As he gave himself to suffer on the cross to save the church, so we are to be willing to deny ourselves,  and to bear toil land trial, that we may promote the happiness of the wife.  It is the duty of the husband to toil for her support; to provide for her needs; to deny himself of rest and ease, if necessary, in order to attend on her in sickness to go before her in danger; to defender if she is in peril; and to be ready to die to save her.  Why should he not be?  If they  are shipwrecked, and there is a single plank on which safety can be secured should he not be willing to place her on that, and see her safe at all hazards to himself? But there may be more implied in this than that a man is to toil, and even to lay down his life for the welfare of his wife.  Christ laid down his life to save the church; and a husband should feel that it should be one great object of his life to promote the salvation of his wife.  He is bound so to live as not to interfere with her salvation, but so as to promote it in every way possible.  He is to furnish her all the 'facilities' that she may need, to enable her to attend on the worship of God; and to throw no obstacles in her way.  He is to set her the example; to counsel her if she needs counsel, and to make the path of salvation as easy for her as possible.  If a husband has the spirit and self-denial of the Savior, he will regard no sacrifice too great if he may promote the salvation of his family.  - Albert Barnes