![]() If a student does not have the heart to be a student, he cannot be a student. Unless you are determined to learn to be a husband, you will not succeed in becoming a husband. Unless you are determined to learn to be a wife, you will not succeed in becoming a wife. Some think that when a man earns forty to fifty dollars a month, has grown to over five feet in height, and is twenty-four or twenty-five years old, he is qualified to get married. Many brothers and sisters think that they can become husbands and wives without learning. Never think that you are born a husband or that you are born a wife. If you do not learn, you will never be able. Sister Wu, I will say the same to you it takes three to five years before you learn how to be a wife. ![]() You may need three to five years to learn this. Learning to be a good husband and a good wifeīrother Yang, do not think that you can be a proper husband in an instant. The first thing a Christian should realize is that no trouble within a family can be solved instantaneously. Troubles will perpetuate and propagate themselves. If we are not prepared to face these troubles, we will see one trouble after another. Troubles for a single person are a possibility, but troubles for a married couple are a certainty. But after a person is married, there is definitely trouble. Before a person is married, he or she may have no trouble being a single person. Needless to say, this is a happy occasion and most people like to say "congratulations." While this, of course, is a fact, we also have to admit that there are troubles ahead. God gave me these two very familiar verses. I prayed and considered what I should speak and how I should speak. The brothers have been telling me for many days that I have to attend this meeting today and that I have to speak a few words. Husbands, love your wives even as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her" ( Eph. 5:24-25). Let us read a very familiar passage: "But as the church is subject to Christ, so also let the wives be subject to their husbands in everything. Husbands loving wives and wives being subject to husbands May they glorify You daily, may the work of their hands glorify You, and may everything in this family glorify You. We commit the two of them into Your hand. May You give them grace and bless them so that they may be blessed persons in their respective positions. Our Lord, may this couple express Your love, Your authority, and Your proper human virtues in their family. Lord, may the husband be a real husband, bearing the responsibility of the house, and the head in everything, and may the wife submit as a woman should in everything. May it not bring shame to Your name or mockery from unbelievers. May this act today, this union today, glorify Your name. Lord, give them the grace to learn how to be a husband and how to be a wife and to learn to glorify Your name daily. Show them that the flesh cannot help them through such a relationship. Show them that the marital relationship can be a happy relationship and that it can also be a difficult relationship. May You open their eyes to see the immensity of their responsibility and to see how great a challenge it is to be a husband and how great a challenge it is to be a wife. We pray that You would bless this new couple and that they would see that everything is out of Your grace and Your love. Lord, we are gathered together this afternoon for the wedding of our Brother Yang and Sister Wu. We acknowledge that all grace flows from You. Prayer: Our Lord Jesus, we thank and praise You because all good things come from You. (A word given at a wedding on October 2, 1936)
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