The Delight of His Eyes
My husband and I, aglow from the recent celebration of our Golden Anniversary, slid into our seats at church next to a couple who have been married fifty-six years. We greeted them and as the service continued I was aware of their interactions. He held the bible for her as they read and adjusted her wrap when she was chilly. Once he whispered in her ear and she giggled softly. As we stood in prayer and I laced my fingers into my husband’s I could see they, too, were holding hands. Later they stood together beaming as they greeted members of their large, lovely family. I have seen this stately gentleman open her car door, smiling at his pretty little wife as though they met last week.
God has placed within man the ability to love his wife as his own body, to esteem her more highly than himself. Sometimes we see this remarkably demonstrated, like when two men covered their wives with their own bodies during the Gifford shooting rampage. God called Ezekiel’s wife “the delight of your eyes.”
Clearly some men show no inclination whatsoever to open car doors, and it isn’t easy to sit there waiting for your husband to do something you are capable of doing for yourself. But if he is so inclined the wait is a small sacrifice. What a sad thing it would be if women, in their desire for equality, were to deprive husbands of the opportunity to be what God intended, our cover, protector, defender, lover, and friend.
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I think that at some point, God knits the hearts of a married couple together to form one heart. A dear fried recently lost her husband of about 25 years. They struggled throughout the marriage - she belittled him he rejected her. However in the last couple of years (after the children left home) they realized that they were at a point where they could separate or attempt to become closer. They began to plan trips alone and found out that they could more than "tolerate" each other. Then, the cancer diagnosis came. She was at his side 24/7 in the last month of his life. Feeling his pain, providing comfort - - then he was gone. Now, she says she would give anything to have him back, even him at his worst. She feels like part of her has been torn away. ..."and the two shall become one flesh"!
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