1 Corinthians 13:4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.8 Charity never faileth....
John 15:12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. 13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Ephesians 5:25 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.... 32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. 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.
Christ's love is far different than romantic love or other kind of love.
The problem with modern day marriages is the practice of the couple adding vows of love towards each other when no one should be adding vows to the covenant of marriage that God is performing, and when love is not boastful, all the more reason not to.
Vows to each other can lead to temptations by the devil to sow discords towards each other by keeping a list of wrongs where the other has failed to keep their vows of love. It can work the other way where the spouse sees his or her own failure and judge himself or herself as not really truly loving the spouse and wondering if they had made a mistake in getting married.
I know how spectacular and swooning it can be for having someone you love promises love back. I look at Shania Twain music video "From This Moment On" and I find myself wanting to believe her sincerity. The song is based actually on her vows and her first husband's vows and so it is hard to image she winded up divorced.
Then you have the religious expectations of commitment of the spouse from the other and yet there is no voiced commitment of the receiving spouse of that commitment. One can see that on her side, if the husband does not make her weak in the knees any more, she is gone?
Many Christian marriages are suffering and ending in divorce. So what is true love? Maybe it should not be on passing romantic feelings but on Christ's love instead, relying on Him all the time to supply that fruit of the Spirit along with any other fruit needed to love the spouse.
John 15:12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. 13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Ephesians 5:25 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.... 32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. 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.
Christ's love is far different than romantic love or other kind of love.
The problem with modern day marriages is the practice of the couple adding vows of love towards each other when no one should be adding vows to the covenant of marriage that God is performing, and when love is not boastful, all the more reason not to.
Vows to each other can lead to temptations by the devil to sow discords towards each other by keeping a list of wrongs where the other has failed to keep their vows of love. It can work the other way where the spouse sees his or her own failure and judge himself or herself as not really truly loving the spouse and wondering if they had made a mistake in getting married.
I know how spectacular and swooning it can be for having someone you love promises love back. I look at Shania Twain music video "From This Moment On" and I find myself wanting to believe her sincerity. The song is based actually on her vows and her first husband's vows and so it is hard to image she winded up divorced.
Then you have the religious expectations of commitment of the spouse from the other and yet there is no voiced commitment of the receiving spouse of that commitment. One can see that on her side, if the husband does not make her weak in the knees any more, she is gone?
Many Christian marriages are suffering and ending in divorce. So what is true love? Maybe it should not be on passing romantic feelings but on Christ's love instead, relying on Him all the time to supply that fruit of the Spirit along with any other fruit needed to love the spouse.