The teaching of this Scripture is quite deep—but in a very simple way we could say that when a man obeys God, trusts God, loves God, and serves God, then he is the glory of God. This holds true of the wife. When she obeys, trusts, loves, and serves her husband, then she is his glory. But there is one catch, which most men have difficulty seeing. Unless we become the king, the prophet, the priest, the aggressor, and the initiator in marriage, then the wife has nothing to which to respond. She can
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