Col 3:19 Husbands, love your
wives, and be not bitter against them.
As husbands, The Good Lord is instructing not to be bitter against
our wives, but that we should love them. There many things our wives might do
that can cause us to bitter against them; such as not submitting to our
leadership, still the scriptural injunction is that we should still love them
without bitterness
When we show love, I mean really love without bitterness,
we are demonstrating the character of our Lord Jesus Christ who said “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.”
When we show love, by
correcting out of love (not out of anger or animosity), by showing the right
way and manner she should have acted or behave because love does not rejoice in
evil (the wrong acts or mistakes)(1cor13:4-8)
When we husbands show
love without bitterness, we demonstrate that we accept her imperfectness and we
are ready to tolerate her.
When we husbands show
love bitterness, we demonstrate that we ourselves are imperfect, and we vulnerable
to the same mistake she mistakes
When we husband show love
without bitterness, we are indirectly telling God we accepting His verdict on
our marriage
If we become bitter
against spouses, we are opening the door for Satan to work, the scripture says “Neither
give place to the devil” (Eph4:27). Remember, the story of Cain, He became
bitter against his brother Abel, the resultant effect of his bitterness was
that he murdered his brother.
The Lord doesn’t want us
to murder our marriages all because of bitterness that is enthroned in our
heart against our spouses, that is why He says “Husbands, love your wives, and be not
bitter against them”
Further reading on
bitterness Heb 12:15, Act 8:18 – 24,Genesis 4:5 – 8. I feel it is important
that we check up these scriptural verses in the Bible and meditate on them .
Dear Lord, Help me to
love my wife and that without bitterness nor wroth in Jesus name Amen!
