The husband should love his wife as he loves his own body 1

* Luís Alberto Alves

Today (8) is celebrated in several countries International Women's Day. But Jesus Christ, when he lived on this planet, already warned through the apostle Paul in the letter to Ephesians, chapter 5, verses 29-30: "Therefore a husband should love his wife as he loves his own body. Whoever loves his wife loves himself! For no one ever hated his body, but nourishes and cares for him, just as Christ watches over the Church, for we are members of his body ... "

Conviviality with two is an art. Anyone has their particularities, the DNA that makes them different, for God did not create someone who is a copy of another. Neither twin brothers are 100% similar. Everyone, men or women, will one day be a family.

United through love they will walk together until the day the Lord calls them to the eternal abode in Heaven. While this day is not enough, they will both share the same roof, projects and, in some cases, afflictions; When problems come, both Christian and wicked.

Anyone seeks to take good care of the body. Especially when you know Jesus Christ and are part of your army. It is this zeal that the Lord asks to be shared with the wife or husband. All in a climate of understanding and dialogue.

God in essence is family. That is why in the book of Genesis He prophesies that a man will leave his parents or kinsman in some translations, will join a woman and the two will be one flesh. Only through a married man and woman can a family be formed, which will be characteristic of both.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor