This is a note for the guys. Just guys. Keep your wives away, gentlemen! They are not under any circumstance to see this note. We don’t want them to know our strategies; our underground planning and conspiracies. So here it is: Jesus wants us to love our wives so much that she should be sad to see you leave and thrilled to see you come back home. This commences when we primarily abandon our pursuit of things and pursue our wives. Daily. Continually. We must do this. Your marriage needs to be the coronation of self-sacrifice in a world that self-serves. The world needs to see Christian men unashamedly in love with their wives. Chesterton once wrote that “Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.” You didn’t decline. You took on the armor to serve her. Now fight! Fight wholeheartedly to the glory of God; for the good of Narnia. Get rid of the ring of selfishness in Mount Doom where harsh masculinity abides and put on Jesus–the God/Husband who gave and gave and gave to the point of death.
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