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8 Responses to "unconditional love, unconditional respect"
2 | maryanne
Excellent food for thought. It’s all to easy to focus on only one half of that scripture – to emphasize love but forget respect, or to emphasize respect and neglect love.
Hope you have a lovely Valentine’s Day!
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3 | Annie
There’s a book called Love & Respect written entirely on a woman’s need for love and a man’s need for respect, from a Biblical perspective. While we didn’t quite agree with everything, it did open my eyes to what you had mentioned. The Bible commands us to unconditionally respect our husbands. For the most part it’s easy to do, but there are times when I feel like I just can’t give him what he doesn’t deserve. However, the Holy Spirit is quick to remind me that He has given me everything pertaining to life and Godliness and that I CAN respect my husband, because of what Jesus has done for me. We actually sang a song this morning in church that made me realize however I may have been wronged by someone else, Jesus forgave me of SO much more. I’m so thankful to have a great marriage to an amazing husband! Happy Valentine’s Day!
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4 | Aileen
Elisa, I think your response to Annie is so true on so many levels. As a mum, when the children ask so much, I find that I, in return, ask so much more of my husband. I need him to validate me in my day to day but I recognise that so often, I fail to give him the respect owed to him. Well done for passing on this thought. It’s time to give a big hurrah for marriage!
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5 | Megan
As one of the people who doesn’t like the “submission” term, I do feel differently about the passage when “respect” is used instead. I try very hard to show Colin respect at all times, even during the times he is being a pain-in-the-you-know-what, when my friends admit that they would have a hard time being respectful to their husbands under those circumstances. I realized a long time ago that he is definitely in the percentage that would prefer respect over love, and I try to show it every day, unconditionally.
Good post — thanks for the reminder. :)
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6 | Robin
Thanks for a wonderful post, E! I’ve never thought about unconditional respect, and will have to think (and pray) a bit more to understand what that means in terms of my attitude and actions. When Ken and I discussed your post, he said that he doesn’t see a big distinction between showing love and showing respect – the two are very similar actions in his mind. This was eye-opening as well. Thanks again, both for your post and the discussions it provoked.
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7 | Betsy Peterson
soo awesome! I am passionate about marriage too! And yes, SAtan is a liar, and hates marriage. This causes me to pray passionately about my marriage and others too, because marriage is awesome, the way God intended it to be. I want to trust in God to build up a wall of defense around it and other marriages! That brings glory to God! thanks so much for posting!
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blissfule Reply:
February 15th, 2010 at 08:41
Hi Annie – the pastor mentioned that book in his sermon, and I’m hoping to read it myself. Thank you for sharing what you are learning as well. When we have high respect for our husbands, they will work hard to live up to that, and when we have low respect, it’s pretty easy to live down to that, too.
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