07 Apr Seek Ye first a godly marriage.
A happy home, who can find?
There is nothing anyone can use to replace a good marriage. Once marriage is peaceful, many other goodies will follow.
The reason is that success, joy, happiness, and many good and perfect gifts can only thrive in a marriage where God’s presence presents.
St. Matthew 6:33
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.
Seek ye first, a godly relationship, courtship, and marriage in which all other benefits shall be added onto you.
This kingdom
Godly marriage is one of the ways to the kingdom of God. The business of the kingdom is highly paramount to God. In his agenda for populating the kingdom, marriage is one of the weapons he has for achieving the purpose. Family structure matters to God a lot. It is godly marriage that brings about good family, while good families form the community of God’s kingdom.
Matthew 7:14
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Though, the road to a godly marriage may be narrow and stressful, but it worths plying. The joy and the comfort behind it is immeasurable. It’s only few who finds it. The common way that accommodates all kinds of lifestyles makes entrance fee easy. Occasionally, no fee is required. The price is far embedded in the middle of the journey, where it may be difficult for anyone joined to go back. That is where the devil begins to punish them.
Benefits of godly marriage.
• Unity
• Trust
• Genuine love
• Commitment
• Quick success
• Liberation
1. Unity:
the best marriage is a godly marriage, it produces unity, and unity produces confidence in one another. Any couple which practices good and godly marriage speaks with one voice. They don’t entertain individualism, where some people practice ‘God for all and every man for himself’.
Whatever form of challenge one is facing is also the headache of the other. When one rejoices, the other joins as one body that the Bible calls them.
2. Trust:
There is trust in godly marriage. The Bible becomes the manual that leads the couple the way to live their life. Trust is a component of the attributes to a good marriage. It’s trust that make a woman to believe a man whenever he promises to do something. She knows that once he says it, he does it. One of the identities of a man and a woman who trust God is the fear he or she has for God. Anyone who fears God will be trusted. He, who has the fear of God in him, will find it difficult to do otherwise.
Psalms 111:10
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his precepts have good understanding. To him belongs eternal praise. NIV
3. Genuine love.
The only good marriage anyone can have is a godly one. Every other marriage is man-made, and anything man-made can fail at any time.
Genuine love can only be found in a godly marriage. That is a love that comes with the fear of God.
Whatever anyone does that does not feature or show that it was brought up through the fear of God has a tendency to crash at any time.
A genuine Love is a love that thinks of how God would feel if I do otherwise. Genuine love is the love that seeks God’s minds, opinions, and position before taking any step.
No matter how bad a situation may be, genuine love remains calm as long as God has not spoken.
A lot who has genuine love towards their spouse has many reasons to abandon their matrimonial home because of one hardship or the other, but they remained in the marriage seeking the face of God. Especially those who hear from God before getting into the relationship.
Genuine love does not think evil about his or her spouse, and does not act selfishly towards a partner.
If you choose a godly marriage, there is a lot to enjoy, like Peace, joy, happiness intimacy with God and your spouse. To enjoy these, there is a price to pay. You must allow God to take the front seat of your entire life, whatever he says you would do.
He said about Abraham, can I do anything without making my friend know?
Genesis 18:17-19
17 And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do;
18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him. KJV
He paid a price, the price Abraham paid actually put him in a position that God cannot but trust him. With that, he won the hearth of God completely.
If you have genuine love, a time will come in your life that your spouse wouldn’t be able to do any without your knowledge.
4. Commitment.
Commitment is an act of giving all to the marriage, on the ground that things must work irrespective of the challenge facing the relationship or marriage. Discouragement, lacks, misunderstanding or fear have no place where Commitment is at work. All that Commitment knows is, the project must work, not even the devil can stop Commitment not completing whatever he or she has started.
If you constitute or entered into a godly marriage, one of the things you are going to benefit is commitment as a husband or a wife. If you are deficient in any aspect of your life, commitment will keep watching for you until you are mature in that area to make a change and align.
Commitment does not give room for a vacuum, it covers up the lapses.
5. Quick success.
The unity in godly marriage is so active and graceful that couples quickly find their ground in anything they put their hands because the devil and deceit have no place in them. Two people working, and one among is busy hiding part of the proceeds for selfish purposes is not the case of a godly marriage.
It is easy for a united couple to make it than the couple who is divided. Self spirit in marriage takes no one anywhere but rising and falling. I see a reason why the Bible says in
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10
9 Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. KJV
6. Liberation.
A godly marriage is a platform for Liberation. There are things that have come to stay, not because they are right but because they have become a norm, it became a way of life to people. These are some of the things that godly marriage have correct in our society today.
Such as “when a man is talking, his wife must not question him”
Another one is “men are not to be trusted”
All these have done so much havoc to the lives of people in marriage.
These, has the godly marriage in line with the Bible came to address. It has given so much to people by liberating them from the existing method of running homes, which have by so many steps set them backward. Which have set them backward with many steps.
A Golden Counsel.
If anyone you want to marry has changed track from Jesus, no matter how long you have traveled with him/her in the journey to marriage, it is better for you to pause. Examine very well whether you should continue or not. If you base your ‘no going back’ on the statement that “God will change him/her,” what you have just done is that you saw a problem and walked into it by yourself.
Young man, young lady, you are still single. You can still change your decision if the one you have about marriage now is far from God. And go the right way.
Call on God. He would deliver you by his mighty hands.
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