This is your Monday Short meditation. Back in the 1960’s I had to take a couple of elective courses in high school. I didn’t choose ROTC, even though that would have solved my wardrobe deficiency issue, I did not take Home Economics, in spite of the fact there would be some delicious free meals cooked in class that would have helped offset my joy of eating, as well as subsidizing my meager lunch meals. No, I took Family Living. In that one semester course we were taught dining etiquette, the proper way to set a table, and the order that food should be served to guests. Of course we were taught about nutrition, dinner conversations as a way to build relationships, and a few other things that I can’t recall. Now, don’t criticize me. It was not a Home Economics class! It was Family Living. It was just by chance that I was the only male in the class. Oh, poor me!
I did well in the class, but now as I look back nearly 60 years ago, I realize that the Family Living course had omitted a few things that would have benefited students. What did they omit? To keep it short, let’s just see what the Apostle Paul has to say about Family Living, especially in the Christian household. Refer to the closing verses, keeping in mind that all scripture is inspired by God and it is profitable. Have a great week! Be blessed!
“Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church—for we are members of his body. “For this reason, a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. “This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.” (Ephesians 5:21-33 NIV)
Committed to the climb,
Mark L. King