On marriage.... ( for me ):
For me its not about finding the one who completes me, but who complements me. It's not about two halves becoming one, but two wholes being greater together. Multiplication. It's when it makes better sense for two people to be together than apart, it's when two destinies collide and accomplish great exploits together, it's when their union is not just about their own individual needs although there is beauty,love, satisfaction in their oneness....but them being together is a blessing to each other, to their future children and their future children's children, for their greater families and communities, for the world that they touch and influence, for God's purposes and his Kingdom and most of all for His glory. Marriage is no small task. This is more than just finding love, even though our hearts long for it and we come alive when we find it... It is firstly finding God, finding His love, then finding ourselves and living fully, then finding each other, complementing one another, learning to serve, learning to cleave, learning to support, learning to dance, learning to let go...learning to become one. Learning to bring God in their marriage, their love, their union reflecting the Love of Christ shared with the Church. The beauty and joy, the perseverance and commitment amidst the process of letting go of self, of trials and attacks, of distractions, of everything that we come across in daily living....this is God's plan... marriage is possible, dancing is possible, walking with Him is possible, living for his glory is possible. Two individuals, two gifts and talents and personalities, with own weaknesses and strengths, joining together, loving one another, enjoying one another, becoming one and then uniting their visions and doing greater things for God together! Changing the course of history, changing their generational lines....wow... God give us strength, God bless our marriage, God fill us all with Your love, so we can love one another with a love that brings glory to You...Father....wow, I am such a child in this.... Maybe so far from this reality, but seeing your vision and heart in this....thank you for being Love, for making us to love. For Marriage and union and family and sharing of love.... Thank you for blessing marriage for believing in it for creating it right in the beginning of creation.... (Gen 2).Thank you for the beauty and joy marriage brings for all that is right about it, for all that two paths beoming one new path brings, for just allowing people to even just enjoy life not alone...like you are...but mostly for Your heart toward us as shown through marriage:
Ephesians 5:
Wives and Husbands
22 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing[b] her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church— 30 for we are members of his body. 31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”[c] 32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
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