Women Teaching Women

To begin, let’s point out the obvious: There’s more to love than romance. While a healthy relationship between a man and a woman is certainly a beautiful and God-glorifying thing, some women are just never intended to experience this aspect of love. But even if you never do, there’s no reason why you can’t experience true love to the fullest extent as God intended you to know. God is the Author of love, and He shows love to us in so many different ways! First and foremost, He gave up His Son to die for us so that our sins may be forgiven, that our fellowship would be restored with Him. What’s more, He revealed Himself through His Word so that we can know just how much God loves us. He lovingly created us in His image, He deals with us in loving patience, He disciplines us because He loves us, He tells us to give Him all our cares because He cares for us… The list can go on and on! We cannot ever complain that “I am single, therefore I will never know what love is li...

Has your husband ever disappointed you? Oh, my dear friend, I know what a silly question that is. Well, how about this: How recently has it been since your husband last disappointed you? Well, not that long ago…. Unfortunately, I am too easily disappointed by the man to whom I gave my heart. Holidays like Valentine’s Day can be effective catalysts for feeling that our men have failed to do something for us… again. Why do we struggle with this sense that everything is not the way it should be? Selfishness In our flesh, that is, before we knew God and whenever we fail to rely on His Spirit, we are selfish. We really want to be loved, but we don’t want to put in the effort to love . Fellow wife, if you look at the advertisements and messages, Valentine’s Day is a test, set up to see if our husbands love us in a very generic, spoon-fed way. And we eat it up. And they often fail. Many marriages—even solid, Christian marriages!—are treated as a see-saw. One day,...