5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
5:27 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.
5:28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
5:29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
5:30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
5:31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
5:32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
5:33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife [see] that she reverence [her] husband.
After readinf the Scriptures, it was evident that marrieage is well defined through the metaphor of Christ and the Church. As Christ died for the Church, men are asked to give themselves up and "die" for their wives.
A husband is to reflect Christ, us as wives is to reflect the Church.
How should the Church respond to Christ? In the purest sense, the church is here on Earth to honor Christ because Christ died for the Church, the church in turn now lives for Christ.
If we apply that to marriage, it means that we as wives should live for our husbands.
How do we live for our husbands?
It is a matter of centering our lives on loving and serving them, just as the Church's whole focus is to love and serve Christ through devotion and action.
excert from Loving Your Man Without Losing Your Mind
by Susie Davis
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