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\u201cHowever, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.\u201d -Ephesians 5:33<\/em><\/p>\n Have you ever heard \u201cmen need respect\u201d, and \u201cwomen need love\u201d? I have to admit this idea was branded into my brain as a result of some amazing marriage coaching after my husband and I were engaged. But it wasn\u2019t until recently that these words jumped out at me as I was reading scripture \u2013 and how true they are!<\/p>\n We are all wired so differently \u2013 men and women, young and old, with different likes and dislikes, different desires and different motivations. How could we best motivate and encourage each other if we knew what made the other person tick?<\/p>\n In the short amount of time I\u2019ve been married, I\u2019ve realized that what motivates me is different than what motivates my other half. His love languages are different then mine. In business and ministry, the same is true! Some may be motivated by challenge, others, serving others. Still, some are motivated by \u201cgetting it right\u201d, and still others are motivated by the fun of it all. But, at the end of the day, we do have two things in common \u2013 we need to feel loved, and we need to feel respected for what we bring to the table.<\/p>\n The picture of marriage and how we are to treat one another in the New Testament is quite different from some of the cultural expectations we\u2019ve had about relationships. Our culture says, \u201cServe me!\u201d when we are called to serve. (Matthew 20:28) Some believe marriage is to \u201cbe fulfilled\u201d when Christ said, \u201clay down your life for your bride.\u201d (Ephesians 5:25) We think all our problems will end when someone comes into our lives to fix them for us. Instead, marriage reveals our greatest inadequacies. The cool thing is, if we let it, it can be the best way we can grow into becoming more like Him.<\/p>\n In all our relationships, love and respect are key. How can you love and respect those you serve today?<\/p>\n Subscribe Now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Love & Respect \u201cHowever, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.\u201d -Ephesians 5:33 Have you ever heard \u201cmen need respect\u201d, and \u201cwomen need love\u201d? I have to admit this idea was branded into my brain as a result of some amazing marriage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[182,145,3097,181],"class_list":["post-11913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-devotionals","tag-god","tag-love","tag-respect","tag-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}