Rachel Workman: 31 As the Scriptures say, “A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.”[c] 32 This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one. 33 So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Having had 2 failed marriages, I feel I have no room to really comment here. But maybe someone can take something from my failures. What I have come to see as being the problem with most failed relationships is the lack of practicing these verses. A man is joined to his wife and they become one. A woman is to submit to her husband and the man is to love his wife as himself. The head of the family is Christ and then comes the husband and wife and everything else is placed under that. When you put other things ahead of either one of these things you have failed. This includes your job, your children, and your extended family. When the children come before your spouse you create an imbalance in the home by placing them in a position God never intended them to be in. The same goes for jobs and extended family. When your extended family comes before your spouse you've again created an imbalance inside the marriage. Homes are broken and relationships are having to adapt to that brokenness. This is making it even harder for people to practice these verses. But I truly believe if both people would, there would be more success stories.
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Mike
Grimm: 31“For this reason a man will leave
his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one
flesh.” 32This is a great mystery, and I am applying it to Christ
and the church. 33Each of you, however, should love his wife as
himself, and a wife should respect her husband.
The union of husband and wife merges two persons in
such a way that little can affect one without also affecting the other. Oneness
in marriage does not mean losing your personality in the personality of the
other. Instead, it means caring for your spouse as you care for yourself,
learning to anticipate his or her needs, helping the other person become all he
or she can be. The creation story, in Genesis 2:24, tells of God's plan that
husband and wife should be one, and Jesus also referred to this plan on Matthew
19:4-6
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John Burnett: 31 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. 32 This mystery is
great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church. 33 Nevertheless,
each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself,
and the wife must see to it that she [a]respects her husband. If men followed these
commands and loved their wives like they loved themselves, there would be no
divorce.
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Tomorrow’s reading for Ephesians 6:1-4.
6 Children, obey your parents because you belong to the Lord,[a] for this is the right thing to do. 2 “Honor your father and
mother.” This is the first commandment with a promise: 3 If you honor your father and
mother, “things will go well for you, and you will have a long life on the
earth.”[b]
4 Fathers,[c] do not provoke your children to anger by
the way you treat them. Rather, bring them up with the discipline and
instruction that comes from the Lord.
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