“Above all, love each other deeply, because love
covers over a multitude of sins.”
This is just one of the many instructions given in
the Bible about love. It is important to recognize
that the person that you are married to is prone
to falling every now and then, much like you.
Marriage is about two imperfect people coming
together while engaging the help of God in order
to fulfill their commitment to each other. None of
this can succeed without the help of God and that
is why it is important that the two keep referring to
the word of God for solutions to any hurdles they
face along the way. God offers grace for the two
to accept and love each other despite their faults
in recognizing that each none of the two is perfect.
When you love someone you put their needs
before your own and go the extra mile to make
them happy. You do not dwell on their faults but
instead look to bringing out the good in them.
Being a positive reinforcement to your spouse is
a God-given role for each of the two. Husbands
are instructed to love their wives while wives
are to submit to their husbands. Nowhere is this
illustrated better in the Bible than here:
“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[a] 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