Christian Marriage: Building on a Foundation   by C M HQ

in Relationships / Marriage    (submitted 2011-06-07)

Just what is a Christian Marriage?
"We are confessed Christian believers which have made a decision to enter in to matrimony." Is there a whole lot more that will help define matrimony?
It is critical to learn to read God's Word that people will better see the institution of marriage as He fashioned it. I am convinced that at least one explanation for why we are now lost during marriage happens because a number of us do not possess The Lord's vision regarding it.
Let's take a look at Ephesians 2:21-32 in answering the essential issue above.

Ephesians 5:21-32 (Today's New International Version)
Instructions designed for Christian Households
21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do 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 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, people have never hated their own bodies, but they feed and care for them, 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.” 32 This is a profound mystery-but I am talking about Christ and the church.

This specific Scripture reveals a basic commandment for any Christian Marriage:
• Wives: Submit to your own husband.
• Husbands: Love your wives just like Jesus loved the church.
I found it intriguing that God put no conditions on this commandment for each mate. It is critical to remember that we will each be held responsible for our specific behavior. Not to be able to justify the women at all, but unfortunately I think at least one reason several women have an issue with submission is a result of the possibility that some of us men do not necessarily love just like Christ.
None among us have always been successful at satisfying this valuable Christian Marriage obligation, but it surely has to be a goal we strive to achieve day after day. It is regarded as one of many critical differentiating elements from a "worldly marriage".

Challenge: Verbally communicate to your spouse that you'd like to spend the upcoming 7-day period paying close focus on fulfilling your own God-given responsibility. Keep your own record of crucial experiences for conversation at the conclusion of the week

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