The following scripture is a beacon of light that shines hope into the hearts of those who have lost the expectation that their marriage can lead to a fulfilled and wonderful life. God chose our covenant marriages to actually serve as the way that we can, through the death to our self (old man) and walking in newness of life in Christ, find fulfillment and meaning in our marriages. But we must in the power given through the Holy Spirit willingly lay down our lives for our spouse; there is no alternative.
Marriage is the only relationship that God requires us to do as He did in laying down His life for us. Husbands and wives need to die so that this sacrificial act of love will raise their marriage to a profound level only available to His children, a level that as clearly as possible emulates the love that God has for us. This is truly holy ground. Please spend time pondering what our God is telling us here.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.
In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— for we are members of his body.
“For this reason, a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”
This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Ephesians 5:25-33 New International Version (NIV)
Find out why you can only find true contentment and fulfillment in giving your life to first God, and then to your spouse. This is the purpose that The Fulfilled Marriage: The Three Doors was written.
TOPIC: Fulfillment in Marriage
