June 23, 2024

June 23:  Christian Fellowship.

Mutual Love and Support.
Let your fountain be blessed.  And rejoice with the wife of your youth.--Proverbs 5:18, NKJV

LET THE HUSBAND aid his wife by his sympathy and unfailing affection.  If he wishes to keep her fresh and gladsome, so that she will be a sunshine in the home, let him help her bear her burdens.  His kindness and loving courtesy will be to her a precious encouragement, and the happiness he imparts will bring joy and peace to his own heart.--The Ministry of Healing, 374.

Let the husband and wife study each other's happiness, never failing in the small courtesies and little kindly acts that cheer and brighten the life.--The Ministry of Healing, 393.

Though difficulties, perplexities, and discouragements may arise, let neither husband nor wife harbor the thought that their union is a mistake or a disappointment.  Determine to be all that is possible to be to each other.  Continue the early attentions.  In every way encourage each other in fighting the battles of life....Let there be mutual love, mutual forbearance.  Then marriage, instead of being the end of love, will be as it were the very beginning of love.--The Ministry of Healing, 360.

      Haven't you read the Scriptures?" Jesus replied.  "They record that from the beginning 'God
       made them male and female.' "  And he said, " 'This explains why a man leaves his father
                      and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.'
                               Since they are no longer two but one, let no one split apart
                                                      what God has joined together."
                                                                                               --Matthew 19:4-6, NLT