Ephesians
5:21-25 “Submit to one
another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, submit yourselves to your
own husbands as you do to the Lord. 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. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit
to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just
as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.”
Beth
Moore tells us that in God’s bigger story, we are a part of something that is
beyond our comprehension. We are truly nothing except an example of God’s grace.
Submission is not about inequality, but about God’s plan for a form of authority
and order in the home. God holds men responsible for the thriving, flourishing
and wellbeing of the united home and marriage.
Genesis
2:20b-24 But for Adam no suitable
helper was found. So the Lord God
caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he
took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with
flesh. Then the Lord God
made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her
to the man. The man said, “This is now bone of my
bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for
she was taken out of man.” That is why a man leaves his father and mother and
is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
A man shall be united
to his wife, and they become one flesh. The 1828 Webster’s dictionary defines that
word “united” as: Joined; made to agree; cemented; mixed; attached by growth”.
Beth Moore defines “united” as “adhered to’ or “glued to”. I heard Pastor Raul
Ruiz describe the united in marriage union and unity as two pieces of wood
glued together to where pulling them apart rips and splinter both causing great
irreparable damage because the two are now one. Of all earthly representation
that Father God has given us for His Son’s relationship to the body of
Believers called the church, His bride in marriage is used. How could anything
so fragile, so frail and imperfect as us represent anything so holy, glorious
and divine?
2
Corinthians 11:2 “I am jealous for
you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so
that I might present you as a pure virgin to him.”
God
is the only one who can overtake our thoughts. It is God’s business; not mine
or yours. God has made it the responsibility of the man to wash his wife with
the Word of God. God-designed marriage is not “where we want it to be daily”;
no human relationship can be. But, it is “good”, and “good” is good. The 1828
Webster’s dictionary defines the word “good” as: “Having moral qualities best adapted to its design and use, or the
qualities which God's law requires; virtuous; pious; religious; applied to
persons, and opposed to bad, vicious, wicked, evil.” It’s not perfect, but
can’t “good” be good? Does it have to be “fantastic”?
Let's continue with my notes from the Beth Moore session of marriage, the Bride of Christ", on the next post.
In Christ, Brian
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