Bryant Hewitt. Love has no Time stamp.

Marital Love Genesis 29:20 “Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.” Husband and wives love is reflective of Christ’s love for the church and the church of her Bridegroom, Jesus Christ. Ephesians 5:25-28 is one of the best descriptions of how a husband should love his wife, “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.” Men, there is no “plan B.” This is an imperative command. Men are to love their wives as themselves and as Christ loves the church and gave Himself for her. The greatest thing a husband can do for his wife is to love her. Women, the greatest need for a man is to have respect for him because respect is interpreted as love just as women interprets love as respect for her. Men and women have different needs and so for men it is to be respected and for women it is to be loved. The husband and wife relationship is like that of Christ and the church in that it is a sacrificial love. When a man loves his wife, he would willingly give his life for her while the wife would more easily submit for a man willing to do this.