Be a man!!

Brothers how many times have we heard this phrase? When I hear "be a man" I can't help but get the image of a egotistical, brut of a person spitting tobacco on the ground, yelling at his wife to make him some dinner while sitting on the sofa drinking a beer. It sound funny but that description was me early in my marriage. Our culture teaches us that this is the way a man should be. However this is the polar opposite of the way our Lord wants us to be. I always hear men quote Ephesians 5 or Colossians 3 and talk about women submitting or to be submissive to their husbands; but this is where they stop reading. If you continue Paul states husbands love your wives as Christ loves his church. Christ served his people, washed his disciples feet, lived a life of service for all those around him and ultimately fulfilled scripture and gave his life for his for his Church. So if we husbands are supposed to love our wives as Christ loves the Church we should be willing to die for her, serve her as Christ serves His Church. Our culture continues to pull us to a life of selfishness and laziness, do the hard but Godly thing; love your wife as Jesus loves his Church and handed himself over for her.