THE RESPONSIBILITIES
OF MARRIAGE
By DIGC 18 October 2019
Your muscles are not meant to fight your wife
but to fight for your wife; it is not to intimidate your wife but to
accommodate her.
SCRIPTURE: Wives, submit
yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. Husbands, love your wives,
even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it.
Ephesians 5:22, 25.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
Your muscles are not meant to fight your wife but to fight for your wife; it is
not to intimidate your wife but to accommodate her.
Marriage is the
legally or formally recognized union of two people, a man and a woman. Simply
put, it is the state of being married.
In marriage, a man
leaves his father and his mother in order to be united with his wife (Genesis
2:24). It is critical also to know that God is the originator of marriage.
(Genesis 2:18). So, marriage is not just recognized by humanity but it is also
approved and recognized by Divinity.
Now, marriage itself
is responsibility. The man should be responsible to his wife and the wife
should be responsible to her husband.
The truth is, you are
meant to relate with your husband or wife the same way Christ relates with His
Church. And this applies to singles who will get married someday. Anytime a
woman sees her husband, she should be reminded of Christ, and not be reminded
of the devil. The man is not meant to be a picture of wickedness in the home or
a symbol of tyranny to his wife.
The tragedy today is,
some men are the lions of the tribe of their families, including those who are
Christians and church workers. When they are returning home from work, their
children and wives would begin to quake. This is absolutely not of God.
Beloved, your muscles
are not meant to fight your wife but to fight for your wife; it is not to
intimidate your wife but to accommodate her. Masculinity is responsibility, and
marriage is responsibility.
REMEMBER THIS: Your
muscles are not meant to fight your wife but to fight for your wife; it is not
to intimidate your wife but to accommodate her.
ASSIGNMENT:
1. Determine to be
responsible or to become more responsible in your marriage
2. Let your wife or
husband see Christ in you by the way you treat him/her.
PRAYER: Lord, I ask
for the Grace to embrace responsibility in my marital relationship. I refuse to
be a source of pain to my wife or to my husband. Make me a reflection of Your
Image when my spouse beholds me, Lord, in Jesus’ Name.
For Further
Understanding, Get this Message: Revelation of Marriage
QUOTE: When you are
getting into marriage, understand your husband’s practice with his people. This
knowledge will help you to continue the practice in marriage. Culled from ‘In-laws, In-loves and outlaws’ by Dr. Becky Paul-Enenche
AMAZING FACT: Frogs
breathe through their skin in hibernation
DAILY READING: Jer.
31:27 to 32:44, 1 Tim :1 to 16, Ps 88: 1 to 18, Prov. 25:20 to 22.
PROPHETIC
DECLARATION/WORD: The grace to exist as a picture of Christ both in the home
and in life generally is released upon you in Jesus’ Name.
