Ephesians 5:31
“FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND HIS MOTHER AND BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH.”
Endless movies and songs are written about this. Teenagers are smitten by it. The wonderful creation of this relationship. It can be difficult and some do dissolve, but it was created to be a blessing.
It’s so great that one leaves his family to make a new union. I can recall the choosing of my wife over my family. She become primary over them. There was some pain here as I loved my mom. But it was the right thing to do. My mom wouldn’t have wanted it any other way. My wife had to know that she was the primary human relationship.
The crazy thing is that it’s a type of our relationship with God. He is the primary relationship, even above the spouse. Our allegiance is to Him. One may think, does that harm the marriage? Quite the contrary, it strengthens it. That’s how the creator designed it. As we follow his model and honor Him we benefit most. Just as we follow laws of nature, so when we obey this spiritual law, we’re blessed.
Unfortunately, the world, the flesh and the devil have corrupted the marriage relationship. Thus, it’s been damaged. They want sex outside of God’s design. Romans 1:24, 25 says, “Therefore God gave them up to vile impurity in the lusts of their hearts, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for falsehood, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.” Because they rejected God and His truth, they were given up to “vile impurity”. As was said earlier, when we act contrary to nature’s laws we lose. The same is true with disobeying spiritual laws.
God created man and woman to be together. There was no suitable helpmate for Adam, so God created Eve. God put the natural attraction in us. My wife is on vacation with some of her friends. I miss her. Our personalities mesh and we are each other’s favorite person. That’s how God would have it.
A strong marriage takes work. Very few relationships can challenge us like it. We have to learn to talk about frustrations. We listen, bend and flex to make it work. There is to be give and take from both sides. Each needs to choose the other. No other relationship will cause us to grow and mature more. Marriage makes us better. When children enter, they take more out of us, but our family unit becomes a team.
Lord, thank You for our spouses and our children. You have blessed us greatly with them. Thank You for our relationship. We are subservient to You and it is a type of marriage.