They’re two words that
sound an awful lot alike.
- Present: NOUN “the thing put into the presence of another”
- Presence: NOUN “the state or fact of being present – as with others”
I’ve not bought my
wife her Christmas present yet this year.
In fact it’s her birthday two days before Christmas and I’ve not sorted
that either. Queue the anxiety, frantic
impulsive shopping and stressful waiting to see what she thinks…
What should I get her?
Maybe there’s a clue
in the talk I did last week at a men’s breakfast where I was encouraging men to
love their wives, (and to some extent the other women and children in their lives)
as Christ loved the church. How did
Jesus love the church? Ephesians 5 says
by ‘giving himself up for her’. There’s
a clear sense in which Jesus gave himself as a gift to the church and we should
give ourselves as a gift to our wives.
Give myself? If that sound odd to you then I’m with
you. What on earth does that mean?
