What Scripture is most important to you concerning marriage?
I would love to hear what the Bible has said to you about marriage. This week I have been sharing about marriage in my daily devotion messages on the web page and I have hit a few Scriptures. As Shelly and Jason marry this Saturday I would love to share with them and with us some words of wisdom from the Bible. What has touched your heart?
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"Love keeps no record of wrongs." I Cor. 13:5c
Easy to say, hard to do, extremely important to strive for! I am thankful that Chris learned to do this early and often in our marriage!
Oh that is an easy one! :)
for me its Ephesians 5:25-27
25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.
The scripture I’ve found most meaningful in my marriage is Genesis 2, 22-25. To make sense of it though, we have to go back a couple of verses.
Adam had just finished naming all the livestock God created, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field. I guess he must have been very tired. The bible says Adam had no “suitable” helper.
God recognized this and performed the first surgery ever recorded in all of history. All the detail contained in verse 21. Verse 22 says ‘He brought her to him. This tells me God Okayed it. You can’t go wrong with that.
Right away Adam acknowledges her. ‘This is now bone of my bones, flesh of my flesh’. This makes all the New Testament instructions to the husband a no-brainer.
Now let see about the rib. One definition has it as a support structure that strengthens. This supports older language (Greek or Hebrew) in which rib is translated as pillar. She is his pillar. A suitable helper.
They were both bare and felt no shame. I take that as being in God’s plan. If we work His plan we can see no wrong in each other. We can do no wrong. He will hang out with us in the still of the day, talking with us and instructing us on the next item on the agenda.
I try to comply. But…….
Joe Mensah
PRAY, PRAY, PRAY!
and
COMMUNICATE, COMMUNICATE, COMMUNICATE!!!!!
We're going on 14 years in January, and we always give this advice to engaged couples or newlyweds.....
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