Edward
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Women are equal to men. Especially in a marriage. Marriage is like epoxy. Two parts make a whole that binds together. I think there's a lot of lessons in a marriage that illustrate biblical principles. There is a contract of sorts involved, but I don't think the marriage license and all that are for the couple, that's for others. Between the man and woman the binding agent and rules of conduct within the marriage are of a spiritual nature. Love and conscience. Love has nothing to do with contracts. When the two love each other there's a path of conduct that need not be explained. It's simply there. It's not if this then that, that's contractual, a deal. When you love the other, you don't need to ask them if it would be ok if you did such and such without offending them, the love, or the partnership. You can look within your own heart and know the answer immediately to such questions.
Anything beyond that just screams no love, contract. People mess it up and add confusion by looking for obligations of a contractual nature. Scripture tells us what love is. Love is unconditional because it is love. That is the nature of love. That is the nature of God. Without God, we have nothing. Everything good comes from God. God loves us, unconditionally I might add. So the couple should first and foremost dedicate and keep God as the central focal point of the entire marriage, and love God with every ounce of energy and consciousness that we have. Secondly, the partner in the marriage is to be viewed and held as above ones own. I could write a big book about it, steps and ingredients to ensure a long and happy marriage, but then I seen that this book has already been written, and very succinctly What I could write a big about, has been reduced to five verses in Matthew, lol.
Matthew 22: 36-40
36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets./
So there you have it. With God first, one enters into the marriage. If a question arises about can you do something without defiling the marriage, one looks to oneself. Would the action offend you if the shoe were on the other foot? You'll know the answer instantly. No need to ask the other. Before anyone brings to light the apparent contradiction in what I have wrote here, I will explain. I began, saying that there is equality between the man and woman. Later I made the statement, that one is to hold the other above themselves. This is not a contradiction, but the nature of love. There is equality, and yet, because I love her...I would give her the benefit of the doubt. (As I would want others to do so for me), I love her, so would...die for her if the situation arose wherein she could live if I were to die. Many men would agree to this...I'd die for her. This is holding her life above yours, see? If you will notice, our wonderful God has done this for us. He died that we could live, because he loves us.
Thank you Lord.
Anything beyond that just screams no love, contract. People mess it up and add confusion by looking for obligations of a contractual nature. Scripture tells us what love is. Love is unconditional because it is love. That is the nature of love. That is the nature of God. Without God, we have nothing. Everything good comes from God. God loves us, unconditionally I might add. So the couple should first and foremost dedicate and keep God as the central focal point of the entire marriage, and love God with every ounce of energy and consciousness that we have. Secondly, the partner in the marriage is to be viewed and held as above ones own. I could write a big book about it, steps and ingredients to ensure a long and happy marriage, but then I seen that this book has already been written, and very succinctly What I could write a big about, has been reduced to five verses in Matthew, lol.
Matthew 22: 36-40
36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets./
So there you have it. With God first, one enters into the marriage. If a question arises about can you do something without defiling the marriage, one looks to oneself. Would the action offend you if the shoe were on the other foot? You'll know the answer instantly. No need to ask the other. Before anyone brings to light the apparent contradiction in what I have wrote here, I will explain. I began, saying that there is equality between the man and woman. Later I made the statement, that one is to hold the other above themselves. This is not a contradiction, but the nature of love. There is equality, and yet, because I love her...I would give her the benefit of the doubt. (As I would want others to do so for me), I love her, so would...die for her if the situation arose wherein she could live if I were to die. Many men would agree to this...I'd die for her. This is holding her life above yours, see? If you will notice, our wonderful God has done this for us. He died that we could live, because he loves us.
Thank you Lord.