Husbands, Has Your Love Grown Cold?

I heard this in a sermon a while back, and I wanted to share it with you. 

It shows how a husband typically reacts to his wife’s cold during the first seven years of marriage. 

1st year cold:  The husband said, "Sugar dumpling! I'm really worried about my baby girl! You've got a bad sniffle and there's no telling about these things with all the strep going around. I'm putting you in the hospital this afternoon for a general check-up and a good rest. I know the food is lousy there, so I'll be bringing you food from Tosini's. I've already got it all arranged with the floor superintendent."

2nd year cold:  "Listen, darling! I don't like the sound of that cough! I've called Dr. Miller to rush over here. Now you go to bed like a good little girl just for Poppa."

3rd year cold:  "Maybe you better lie down, Honey. Nothing like a little rest when you feel lousy. I'll bring you something. Do you have any canned soup?"

4th year cold:  "Now look dear, be sensible! After you've fed the kids, washed the dishes and finished vacuuming, you'd better lie down."

5th year cold:  "Why don't you take a couple of aspirin?"

6th year cold:  "If you'd just gargle or something, instead of sitting around barking like a seal!"

7th year cold:  "For Pete's sake, stop sneezing! Are you trying to give me pneumonia!?"

It’s funny because it’s true.  As husbands, we are called to love and to lead our wives.  And usually we do pretty good when we first start out.  But over the years we tend to forget how precious our wives really are, and we tend to forget our God-given role in marriage.  So I want to encourage you today to recommit yourself to be the husband that God wants you to be.

Colossians 3:19 (CSB) says, "Husbands, love your wives and don’t be bitter toward them."