by Dayna Miller
ADORATION
A KEY TO HIS HEART
So God created mankind in His own
image, in the image of God He created
them; male and female He created
them…
Ascribe to the Lord, O mighty ones,
ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.
Ascribe to the Lord the glory due
His name; worship the Lord in the
splendor of His holiness. To You
belongs silence (the submissive wonder
of reverence which bursts forth into
praise) and praise is due and fitting to
You. O God, in Zion; and to You shall
the vow be performed.
You are to feel for him (your husband)
all that reverence includes: to respect,
defer to, revere him; to honor, esteem,
appreciate, prize, and in the human
sense, to adore him, that is to admire,
to praise, to be devoted to, deeply love,
and enjoy your husband.
WHEN I READ THESE VERSES
to my fiancé and his brothers they had a
hard time following my train of thought.
It led to a long and somewhat convoluted
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discussion that made me grateful that I am
writing this for women and not for men! I
hope that you ladies can understand what
God has laid on my heart
better than they were able to!
We as humans, men and women alike,
are created in the image of our Lord and
Savior. We carry within us a seed of His
Person and personality. It is interesting to
see how that plays out differently in the
genders. While I would love to explore
and explain that, I think it would take a
whole other article to do that! In a nutshell
I think that the commands in Scripture
for men to love their wives and wives to
reverence their husbands well sum up the
needs that each side has. Men need to be
adored and respected. Women need to be
cherished and loved. This is not because
we as humans are weak, or insecure, not
because any of us are less than we should
be, but rather, it is because we reflect the
deep desires of our Father’s heart!
The verses I quoted at the beginning of
this article were intended to give you a
glimpse of three facts.
1) We are all made in the image of God.
2) God desires and deserves the unfailing
adoration of His children.
3) God has commanded that we as
women adore the men He has placed in
our lives as our leaders and friends.
Because men are made in God’s image and
the desire of their hearts naturally mirror
His, they long to be respected and adored.
Because God created them to have that
need in their lives, it is a PRIVELEGE
to fill that need, not a drudgery. Because
Satan hates all things that God created to
be beautiful, we often find this command
to be a drudgery rather than a privilege.
Doesn’t it seem backward to you? I know
it does to me. It should be that every day
is tinted rosy pink and every evening is
a romantic dinner… Right? But that’s
not how life works. The truth is that it
drives us crazy when he forgets to shovel
the snow or when he looses important
receipts or when he takes time off of
work to do things he loves doing even
when money is tight. In the moment of
irritation it is so very much easier to see
him as an utterly frustrating human than
as a man created in the image of God
who needs to be adored and believed in