Spend time in prayer and silence with God asking Him to meet with you and speak to you.
Bible Reading
Come away, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or like a young stag on the spice-laden mountains.
– Song of Solomon 8:14
Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. 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 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 body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church-for we are members of his body. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. This is a profound mystery-but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
– Ephesians 5:21-33
Devotion
The love between Solomon and his bride did not diminish in intensity after their wedding night. Devotion and commitment were keys to their relationship. The faithfulness of our marital love should reflect God’s perfect faithfulness to us.
Paul also shows how marriage represents Christ’s relationship to his church (Ephesians 5:21-33).
The Big Question
Marriages should be a reflection of God’s love. Do you know anyone who has a marriage like this? If you are married, do others see God’s reflection in your marriage? How can you love/submit more to your spouse? To Christ?
Conclude your time in prayer and silence reflecting on what you have learned.