She is me....

By Phillip Holmes


Phillip Holmes served as a content strategist at desiringGod.org. He is the Director of Communications at Reformed Theological Seminary and a finance coach and blogger through his site Money Untangled​. He and his wife, Jasmine, have a son, and they are members of Redeemer Church in Jackson, Mississippi.

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Recently, my wife and I started having family worship again, a time set aside each day for us to read the Scriptures and pray together.

Although we pray and read on our own, we need time in the Bible together as well.

We decided to start light with a seven-day reading plan on marriage.

Our first passage was Ephesians 5:21–33. Verses 28–33 left me speechless and in tears:

"In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body.

“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband."

Paul, like a skill-full artist, overwhelmed me with his picture of marriage. I could hardly speak,

I was so convicted.

I was awed. I asked my wife for observations so that I could gather my thoughts.

But as she spoke about submission, I could only feel the weight of my responsibility.

I hadn’t loved my wife as if she was a member of my own body. I failed to even aspire to love her as Christ does the church, his body.

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Blessings
Yaddy