The First Love

"Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love." Revelation 2.4

The leaving of the first love happens when there is an exchange for another love. What good is for a husband to provide comfortable living, jewelry, luxury and money but to be absent to his wife? The same is with those who give the best of themselves in the church but, at their hearts, Jesus no longer occupies the first place.

Whoever loves his wife loves himself

"So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself." Ephesians 5:28

Much more than a feeling, love is caring. A wife's role is to replace her husband's mother and a husband's role is to replace his wife's father. The relationship between parents and children goes beyond feelings. Feelings are like clouds that come and go. But true and pure love cares about the other person with perseverance, and forever. He who loves his wife loves himself. Whoever mistreats his wife, hurts himself.

FIRSTFRUITS

"Honor the Lord with your possessions and with the firstfruits of all your increase, so your barns will be filled with plenty and your vats will overflow with new wine."       Proverbs 3.9-10

Honor is the link between children and their parents, husbands and wives, servants and masters.
Only those who are born of the Spirit acknowledge, through their firstfruits and offerings, that Jesus Christ is the Lord of their lives.

Married Virgin

"Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth." 

Joel 1.8

Imagine a young virgin married for a long time. Why is she still a virgin? What happened to her husband? Did he travel? Is he distant?

This reflects on the lives of many Christians, for they have not yet had the experience of going on a honeymoon with the Holy Spirit. They're sad, empty, and are clothed in humiliation.

Known

"Her husband is known in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land."

Proverbs 31: 23

The wisdom of the wise woman is her husband's perfume. And so he is honored and respected among all others.

Husband

"The heart of her husband safely trusts her; So he will have no lack of gain. She does him good and not evil all the days of her life. "

Proverbs 31:11-12

When the woman is wise, her house is well cared for. Her finances are controlled in such a way that there's no waste. Her husband is honored by her and trusts her completely.