We live in a world today that wants to destroy the covenant of marriage between one man and one woman as God decreed in the book of Genesis. It is appalling to me when some of the most powerful people in the land are unable or afraid to define what a woman is, for fear of losing political points. Let me be clear, there is only one man and one woman in a marriage; anything outside of this is sin and an affront to God Himself. Why do we have so many divorces, broken marriages, unmarried couples living together, failed relationships, and dysfunctional families today? Many of you reading this blog have experienced this in your own lives. Let me answer this question from God's Word in Ephesians 5:23ff regarding what a true marriage between a man and a woman should look like. “For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is head of the church. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her. So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church. Each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”
God's Word demands that husbands are to love their wives and wives are to respect their husbands. How does a husband love his wife and how does a wife respect her husband? The short answer is this, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” (Mark 12:30-31). You should be meditating and thinking upon the entire counsel of God's Word. For starters, in loving one another you keep no record of wrongs, and you look to the needs of your spouse before your own. Lastly, what does respect look like? Webster's Dictionary defines respect as this: “To view, treat, or consider with some degree of reverence, deference, or courtesy; to feel or show honor or esteem for.” Are these qualities being exhibited in your marriage?
In the next blog we will take a more in depth look into the roles of men and women.
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