There is a lot of talk about today about marriage. As our societies change we find them becoming less and less in conformity to what we Christians expect or might want and marriage is one of those issues.Today’s words are a Bible perspective from God for His people. We can’t really expect those who don’t know Christ or don’t accept the authority of the Bible to conform. That doesn’t make in right, but that is reality.
But for Christians God’s word and His will is pretty clear. A man shall leave his father and his mother and cleave to his wife and the two shall be on flesh.
As God’s people He sets a pattern for us. Governments and societies and institutions can change laws and reinterpret and redefine the word to suit their purposes and changing cultural patterns. And, like it or not, that is the reality of the situation. I personally think that the state should not marry anyone – but just arrange for legal contracts between adults and let them decide about how and where to be married.
But that is not our worry. God’s pattern, set down for His people here in Genesis is.
One man
One woman
One life together
Instead of lambasting the world for acting like a world without God would we not be better off showing the world God’s example for marriage? A Christian marriage is supposed to be a picture of Christ relationship to the church. As a Christian husband my task is to love my wife and treat her with the same love and compassion that Christ shows to me.
If the only picture people had of Christ’s love for the church was my love for my wife, would the world be drawn to Him?
Lets focus on living out our marriages in a way that honours and reflects Christ and leave the rest up to him. As, for lack of a better term, traditional marriages become rarer and rarer it is more incumbent on us to show the love of Christ through our marriages.
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