Will She Take My Love For Granted? … 5

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Another thing to consider is that your wife will give you what she gets from you in good measure, pressed down, multiplied and running over.

You reap what you sow. She is a woman, a wombed man. The womb is a multiplying facility in her body, which is indicative of the multiplying facility in her soul. If you take her for granted, it will come back to you in many folds. Even if she does not intentionally do so, she eventually unconsciously will deliver to you the fully developed form of whatever you planted in her soul.

Here’s another thought. Have you ever noticed this verse? Rom 1:1a Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ. I wonder if you know that the word translated as servant in this verse actually refers to a slave. It refers to someone who is bound in service to another whether voluntarily or involuntarily. So how he feels about his work or his master has nothing to do with how he is required to conduct himself. And his attitude is not expected to change with time, nor should it be affected by his master’s orientation towards him. With that in mind, look at this next scripture where the same word is used.

Luke 17: 7-10 Which of you whose servant comes in from plowing or shepherding in the field will say to him, ‘Come at once and sit down to eat’? Instead, won’t he tell him, ‘Prepare my meal and dress yourself to serve me while I eat and drink; and afterward you may eat and drink’? Does he thank the servant because he did what he was told? So you also, when you have done everything commanded of you, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’ ”

In other words, a slave does not expect to be appreciated or celebrated. He just keeps serving. And in Gal 5:13, it says, “… but by love serve one another.” It uses the same Greek word. Therefore, it says that we should be slaves to, or be bound in service to one another. In the setting of marriage then, it means we should be love slaves to our spouses.

To be continued

Daniel Oyanna is a conference speaker on relationships, health, faith and other subjects and a Pastor and teacher blessed by God with a grace to make things easy to understand. He is the author of the book To Date or Not to Date, Instructions in Submission, Crushing the Crushers, several mini-books most of which are free. He started UnLimited to help people reach their God-given goals by walking with them to their finish line. He is reachable at pd_lionunlimited@yahoo.com