Tuesday, January 3, 2012
The life and trials of a growing Christian-Day five
It's day five and I'm already struggling to write something. I just got off of the phone with a friend who is going through a divorce and is very distraught. My heart goes out to him because I know first hand how it feels to loose a marriage. My first marriage was doomed from the start but I didn't see it until later in life. God was not in it. I didn't want Him in it, and it was a disaster. The bible says in Genesis 2:24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. This is profound! A husband and wife are joined. They are not two separate people any more, they have been combined to be one. When I think about that I picture an old 80s cartoon called the "Thundercats". I know, it sounds a little stupid but just hear me out. In every episode there was some villain that was too strong for each one of the five to beat separately, but when they all put their ships together it made a single unit that was unbeatable. That is what we are to become when we are united in marriage. The problem is, in a lot of marriages the two can't unite to make one. I don't know if it's pride or selfishness or what, but I know that if there isn't unity there isn't going to be a marriage. I also know that if one is a believer and one isn't, it won't work. 1 Corinthians 6:14 Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? Lastly, wives submit to your husbands and husbands love and cherish your wives. Ephesians 5: 22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.23 For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.24 Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word,27 that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.28 So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church.30 For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. Remember, God has given you your spouse! Keep Him at the center of you marriage and you will be unbeatable!
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keep it going brian, i am loving it. especially today's blog.
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