Lord Jesus, what do You want to say to me about the way You love Yourself and the way You want me to love myself?
Today I want to talk to you about loving yourself in the context of marriage, because I am getting you ready for that. I want your future marriage to be about loving your husband and sharing with him yourself as a person that you love, admire, appreciate, and respect, a person you treasure and think well and highly of (because I do), NOT sharing with him a person you need him to judge and tell you whether or not she is OK.
I want you to be so fortified and solidified in your view of yourself, in agreement with MY view of you, that even if your husband disagreed with us, we would not be shaken in our good opinion of you. I know that I will not be shaken in My good opinion of you, so it’s really a matter of trusting you to agree with Me. If your husband and I ever disagree about you, I want and need to be able to trust you to stay with Me, to be in My corner about it, OK?
You do not need your husband to tell you that you are beautiful.
You do not need your husband to tell you that you are worthy of love.
You do not need your husband to tell you that you are worth pursuing.
You do not need your husband to tell you that your body is lovely and your personality is fabulous and that you are worth dying for.
I was crucified to tell you these things, and if you ever need Me to say it again, I AM.
Your husband only gets to come along and say “Amen.”
And if he ever, for any reason, fails to say “amen” to what I have spoken, you and I will still be OK. You will still believe the truth about yourself. Your husband is the frosting on the cake. You and I are baking the cake together right now. He gets to come along and agree–or disagree–with what you say about yourself. And I want you to agree with Me.
You do not need to wait for your husband to tell you these things. I want you to tell yourself these things, every day, before, during, and after the season of marriage in your life. OK?
Marriage is about self-giving, and it means a lot more if the self you are giving is a person you believe is beautiful and valuable and lovely than if you are giving your spouse a person you believe is worthless trash. The more you honor yourself, the more you honor your spouse. And that’s the way I feel about you too.
I know that I gave you the most priceless gift I could when I gave you Myself. I admit it freely. You know that you gave Me the most priceless gift you could when you gave yourself to Me in return. I want you to say to your husband in your heart,
“I know that I have been entrusted with a self to steward, a woman that Jesus thought was worth dying for, and I am giving myself, that woman, to you. This much do I trust you, this much do I love you, this much do I honor you.”
And not, “Honey, please tell me if I’m worth anything, and if so, how much?”
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