Last week as I read over some of the news coming out of Joplin , Mo and the devastating tornados I saw something that really caught my eye. It was the story of a wife and the sacrifice her husband made.
The Weather Channel did an interview with a young woman whose husband of 6-years, a former High School football star, threw himself over her in their bathtub to protect her and them from flying debris as their house was being ripped apart by the tornado. He suffered a terrible puncture wound from a piece of large debris that went through his back and died shortly after.
As soon as I read that I thought of Ephesians 5:25 “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her” and the scripture came to life. This man loved his wife so much, he put himself in harm’s way to protect her. He took the hit, whatever it took to protect his wife, and it cost him his life. I don’t know what this man’s faith was, if he was a believer or not, but he loved his wife the way that God called him to. I'm sure it will a story that will be retold many times, a story of love, a husband's love for his wife.
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