Marriage Volume 1, Issue 1

The institute of marriage was given by God to man in order to bring Him glory. The enemy has truly perverted this institution as he has everyone that God has ordained by telling man lies that we have adopted as truth. The lies that have been the foundation of so many marriages are, but not limited to; they make me happy, they fulfill me, I am getting too old to be alone, we have a baby together, all my friends are doing it, it's cheaper to live together, we have been together for so long, he/she needs me, and I want to have the most beautiful wedding day. All of these reasons fall short of the function of marriage and sad to say if the purpose does not change and the foundation be routed in truth, they may be subject to divorce. While God ordains marriage to bring Him glory, the enemy seeks to have marriage bring him glory as well by showing the world everything but the light of Christ. You would not go to the Motor Vehicle Association to buy groceries because the MVA has a specific function and going to it for any other reason is absurd, yet we see everyday people enter into the covenant of marriage to receive so many things that have nothing to do with showing the world the relationship between our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and the Church. God has to mold and shape each one of us to be able to become the vessels necessary to bring Him glory. Even if the marriage did not start in this manner, God has given us Grace to set the foundation of our marriage onto Christ. If we learned these lessons before marriage we had the opportunity to get started with the correct foundation. We are afforded so many privileges and blessings in marriage but they are the fruit, not our motive. Today, let us take a good hard look at our marriages and relationships that are leading to marriage to see if we are revealing to the world a love that Christ showed the church through His life of sacrifice for us!!! Be Encouraged!!! Have a wonderful life of Marriage on purpose!!!!! Ephesians 5 Marriage—Christ and the Church 22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. 24 Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, 26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, 27 that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. 28 So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church. 30 For we are members of His body,[d] of His flesh and of His bones. 31 “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”[e] 32 This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. 33 Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.