Christian Marriage


Marriage is an institution that was created by God to be experienced by one man and one woman for the rest of their lives (Gen. 2:24). A Christian marriage, when done according to God’s plan, is supposed to be a blessing for each couple (Gen. 2:18), as the couple submits to one another in their marital roles to the Lord (Eph. 5:21). The wife is called to submit to her own husband in obedience to the Lord (Eph. 5:22-24), and the husband is called to submit to the Lord, by fulfilling his role as the spiritual, loving, servant-leader of the home (Eph. 5:25-31).

When both husband and wife consistently strive to fulfill their marital roles in this manner, it blesses both partners, and paints a beautiful picture of what a relationship with Jesus is supposed to look like for others to see (Eph. 5:32).

And yet, the reality of marriage, even Christian marriage, is that the only perfect individual was Jesus, and therefore marriage takes a lot of work, and needs a lot of grace being offered up by one another on an ongoing, never-ending basis, due to the fact that both husband and wife are both a work in process with God (Gal. 5:17), and will not be perfect until Jesus returns and takes us to heaven (Phil. 1:6).

Though painful and emotionally exhausting, disagreements can be a beautiful thing in a Christian marriage from time to time, simply because it enables the couple to extend, and receive grace and forgiveness to and from one another on a regular basis, and is a beautiful picture to the watching world of how the power of God, and His love and forgiveness works in each couples life (cf. 1 Peter 3:1-7). It is truly a beautiful picture of the gospel being lived out in each couples marriage when this takes place.

However, the goal of course for each marriage, is to obviously be filled with (Eph. 5:18), empowered by, and led by the Holy Spirit, allowing Him to form Christ in both the husband and wife, so that the fruit of the Spirit will be at work in both of their lives (Gal. 5:22-23), and the world will see something extraordinarily special (Eph. 5:32).

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