Relationships

21Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

22Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church— 30for we are members of his body. 31“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”c
32This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church.
Ephesians 5:19-32


"1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 Honor your father and mother (which is the first commandment with a promise),
3 so that it may be well with you , and that you may live long on the earth .
4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
5 Slaves, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ; 6 not by way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. 7 With good will render service, as to the Lord, and not to men,
8 knowing that whatever good thing each one does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether slave or free.
9 And masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with Him."
Ephesians 6:1-9

Paul, the author of Ephesians, did not have to research his rabbinical scrolls, or do focus groups, etc., to decide what to write here (or anywhere else in his epistles) ... The Holy Spirit wrote it on the tablet of heart, just as God does with us today. How to act with those we are in various life relationships with comes naturally when one is born again and awakened to the voice of the Lord, and the Holy Spirit, our parakletos-(the one who has been sent to come alongside and help and guide us). We have only to listen. Although the Lord can speak to us anyway He desires, it is most often through that still small voice when we are quiet before Him, "leaning in" to hear. Jesus said that the sum of all the scriptures is spelled out simply: " "Love the Lord God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength," and "Love your neighbor as yourself". It is this Love that conforms and transforms us, sweeping away pride, anger, fear, doubt, unforgiveness, and distilling in our hearts the spiritual purity our Abba is desiring in us.
Today, dwell on these things, listen to that still small voice as you go about, and may every interaction you have with every person you touch be driven by love.