"Listen to our word for today from the Word of God in Colossians 3:19, "Husbands, love your wives." Now we might be OK if it stopped there. We could pipe up and say, "Hey, no problemo. I love my wife." Sorry, but the verse doesn't stop there. It goes on to say, " ... and do not be harsh with them." It's pretty plain, isn't it? Love and harshness just don't go together. Love makes a woman feel safe. Harshness makes a woman feel anything but safe.
Certain packages carry a sign that says "Handle with care." Wives should come with a sign like that. But that's what they need. It's what they're supposed to get. It's the treatment God expects us to give them. Frankly, a woman who is being spoken to or treated harshly by her husband has an understandable feeling of betrayal. Why? Because her husband's love was supposed to be the harbor for which the heart of a woman truly longs. That's harbor as in the one place where you're finally safe - the one place you know you won't be attacked.
No woman should be hit with torpedoes in the harbor because the man who loves her is being harsh with her. Man, when she's with you, let her know that she is really safe."
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