One Way Easter Preaches to Men

As we celebrate our risen Savior on Easter Sunday, I also have the joy of celebrating another year of marriage to my beautiful wife.

As I worship Christ today and meditate on His sacrifice and glorious victory over to death, I cannot help but to also think about the gift of Amy.  The distance we've come, and the covenant of love that we share and also represent between Christ and His church.

I am not ashamed to admit the failures I have had in trying to love my wife well.  I am not ashamed because it always points me to the better Husband that I am to model.  It also gives me great hope to know that because Christ is the perfect groom to His bride, I too can love my wife well, and can see the evidence of that in the progressive sanctification in our marriage because of God's grace!

As I thought about these things on Good Friday, I was reminded of the song "The Church's One Foundation," and particularly of this verse:

The church's one foundation is Jesus Christ her Lord; she is his new creation by water and the Word. From heaven he came and sought her to be his holy bride; with his own blood he bought her, and for her life he died.

Men, if we would meditate on the sacrificial love and headship of Christ over His Bride, and love our wives truly, though we are flawed, as Christ loved the church, how many fights and problems would immediately be resolved? How much glory would God receive!

Lets take the rest of this Easter week to love our wives as Christ loved the church, in the strength that He provides and to the glory of the Father! Let us never forget that it is while we were still sinners that Christ died for us (Romans 5:8)!
He is risen indeed!