So you prayed, and waited for GOD to put a special somebody in your life and you got married...now what?
Actually, the blueprint has already been laid out, and when I say blueprint I am not saying a "biblical guide" I am saying that there is a biblical blueprint.
Maby some people do not understand what a blueprint is. A blueprint is basically a map of the building.
I am speaking of the conductors copy of the music. Some people are planning on writing there love story, but I have news for you...it has already been written, your job is to make your life a carbon copy of how GOD defined marriage!
Read Ephesians 5
(special note to Ephesians 5:21-28)
Ephesians 5:25-28
25 For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her 26 to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God�s word. 27 He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault. 28 In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man who loves his wife actually shows love for himself.
That's right the blueprint says that the man is supposed to LOVE his wife like JESUS CHRIST LOVES the church, that means that aside from the man's relationship with CHRIST his wife is the most important thing!
Maby your still asking, what's the point of marriage? To answer that question I want to move to another passage in scripture. Malachi 2:15
Malachi 2:15
Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? ----Godly offspring.--- So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth.
Here is the story, those that call upon the Name of the LORD they belong to GOD's kingdom, and GOD's kingdom is at war (spiritual war) with satan's kingdom. The only way we can win this war is with GOD. GOD chooses to use flawed vessels (that's human beings).
The game plan that GOD laid out is that the earth would be filled with people are replicas of GOD's glory. (In the Jewish tradition the children would act almost exactly like their parents.) So when GOD said "Be fruitful and multiply" GOD was saying "produce offspring" (natural born, and/or adoption) and be "fruitful" (if I give a handful of seeds to a farmer, and in return I receive from him less seeds, then the farmer has not had a fruitful year)
We are only on this earth a short time, and in the grand picture our lives are like a puff of smoke. Do what GOD ask's and teach your children to be men and women of GOD...and tell them to teach their children! GOD has placed us at an opportune moment in history and we can change this society by providing GODLY training to our children.
Rambo - I'm not sure about that, though perhaps I can agree if your talking about the marriage of Christ the Bridegroom with his Church the Bride (Re 21:2).
Otherwise, I cannot agree, though I surely would like to be married and to find the bone of my bone, ultimately Gods will be done. I pray as Christ asked us to pray, after exalting His glory, I ask for His Kingdom to come! (Mt 6:9,10)
That is surely the end of the the journey and even the reason for the journey, if God wants us to be joined with our other half (this is of course speculation) He could always do it when we are with him in Heaven.
I'm sorry to be contrary, and I wouldn't want you to be offended, I just see things differently.
No matter how people look at it...the "journey" of marriage has already been written down in the bible. As men we are required to Love our wives as CHRIST LOVES the church.
