Given by David Jackson
West Palm Beach, Florida
July 19, 2025
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For my love is with me. (NKJV) Even when I walk through the darkest valley, I will not be afraid, for my love is close beside me. (NLT)
Providing the perfect love (love without fear), comfort, and protection for our wife, staying with her, beside her, and leading her means that we are striving to love her to the degree that, inasmuch as, according as, and in comparison to Christ’s love of the church in giving Himself for her!
In Ephesians 5:25-26, Christ, through the apostle Paul, outlines ten attributes or actions by Jesus Christ toward the church, and consequently, by husbands toward wives, that show the perfect love and comfort that Christ expects of a husband, the Psalm 23 man.