Husbands Love Your Wife. (Seed to Maturity)

I have been very encouraged lately in study of the scripture about the topic of what it means to Love your wife. As always I love to reflect from a landscapers point of veiw. Your wife is a flower. I think of Christy as a rose in this situation. She has the softness of the petal, velvet skin, the beauty of the flower and the thorns that prick me to be more than I am. I have seen so many couples today that are in serious need of a real restoration. Sometimes that includes me as well. Through all of the hard times that we go through as couples I can typically see who is usually at fault. That's right! The HUSBANDS! We are by nature concerned with our own things too much. I know what you are thinking right now. Get over it. We as husbands need to re-evaluate our positions and learn to comprimise with her. She is usually right in the end anyway. Lets look a little closer. In Genesis, God creates Adam and then takes her from his rib. There is certainly going to be something missing when a rib is taken right? Yes. She is. She was taken out of you! That is why there are so many differences between us. We have to learn to think as one flesh to accomplish true identity with each other. So, you are still not convinced! Well okay. When Eve was placed in the Garden with Adam she was identified as an individual for his lonliness and replenisher of the earth. It seems that her whole existence was based in service to him. Now when she was faced with a delima of "what tree do I eat from?" she was deceived into eating from the tree of knowledge. My questions are: Where was Adam? Why was he not there to help her? It is very apperant that Adam was absent from the nest when the enemy came and tempted her. Isn't that a daisy? He was absent. That is typically what we are guilty of when our marriages are in crisis. We are either absent in body or absent in mind. Come on! You know what I am talking about here. I do it all of the time! It is within all men to avoid confrontation with her. Notice also that God only commanded Adam and did not tell Eve. The command came before her creation. It was up to Adam to inform her of the seriousness of her choice. Now, about the enemy. Notice also here that he added to the Warning of God when he spoke to Eve. The serpent added "neither shall you touch it?". That tells me that there was instruction without intimacy. Adam probably said something like "just don't bother with that tree. It is poisonous or something like that." You know God is! He said that we would die if we ate of it." To make light of this situation is just to get you to see underlying truth here. You must understand something. Adam wasn't there to help defend her honor. He was not there to cover her! The Apostle Paul stated that the man is the cover of her children and her. He is the Glory and protector of Her. The glory of a woman is what? Her hair! In the Hebrew understanding hair was symbolic of a covering and maturity. The word Paul used in 1 Cor. 11:15 for hair was the greek word "kome". Which means an ornamental covering or Locks of Hair.̄ This is what the Hebrew men wore to show their maturity. The longer the beard or the hair, the more mature he was considered to be. In case I need to spell this out for you. You as her husband are the hair (maturity and covering). She was made for you and you were made for her. Now, Go and cover her that she may feel your protection and Love.