{"id":1867,"date":"2012-01-05T14:28:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T18:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1867"},"modified":"2012-01-05T14:28:42","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T18:28:42","slug":"the-divine-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1867","title":{"rendered":"The Divine Responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cIn the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.\u00a0For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,\u00a0because we are members of his body.\u00a0&#8220;Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.&#8221;\u00a0This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.\u00a0However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.\u201d \u2013 Ephesians 5:28-33 (ESV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>Men: As Christ provides for every need of the church, so we are called to provide for our wives; to love them, nourish them, and care for them as they are part of ourselves. \u00a0When we truly embrace the divine responsibility and gift that our marriages are, we honor God\u2019s design and intention of that special union.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.\u00a0For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,\u00a0because we are members of his body.\u00a0&#8220;Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2088],"tags":[321,2475,3194,2497,967,2498,2499,269,23,1673,2500],"class_list":["post-1867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-inspirations","tag-christ","tag-christ-jesus","tag-daily-inspirations","tag-divine-responsibility","tag-ephesians","tag-gods-design","tag-gods-intention","tag-jesus","tag-marriage","tag-pauls-epistle-to-the-ephesians","tag-special-union"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-u7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1867"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1869,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions\/1869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}