God Created Marriage

The marriage institution is the same throughout humanity. It has all its origins in God the creator of Heavens and earth and all that is in them. It serves His purpose more than ours.

It is as He made it in the beginning in Genesis. Marriage is not a human culture making. It has nothing to do with our human cultures and traditions. It has everything to do with God and His intentions. I am talking about marriage, a holy institution which God loves and not a wedding day or wedding ceremony. The two are different though.

Marriage is not even a scientific discovery or any religious creation. It has nothing to do with religion etc. I repeat, marriage is about God and his purposes and intentions.

Building Relationships.

It is common knowledge that life is about relationships. Successes and failure are all about relationships. Relationships and how we make them and keep them is what is very important for every individual to understand. If you look around everywhere you are, you will see evidence of failed relationships more than successful ones. All the trouble in the world can be easily attributed to failed relationships.

When a relationship goes wrong, literary everything else goes wrong. It can result in murder, suicide, rape, violence, war, divorce, bitterness, destruction or even terrorism. It is therefore important to know how to maintain relationships and keep them safe and growing.

Love is better than money in a relationship.

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a fatted calf with hatred. Proverbs 15: 17

We live in a society that is so obsessed with material things more than life itself. The generality of our people want to define and measure life according to ‘things’ and want also to define and qualify relationships with what they get materially. They forget that Love is the center and soul of life.

Promoting financial transparency in Marriage?

Last week we looked at some reasons for lack of transparency in dealing with finances in marriage. We saw how this causes conflicts in marriage and how it has led to divorce in many cases. It is an unfortunate thing that couples could end up divorcing because they are failing to be responsible enough and deal with such obvious issues.

Transparency is key in a marriage relationship. Marriage is team work and teamwork builds on mutual understanding, equality and transparency.

The unfortunate thing is that these days there is so much secrecy in marriage and so much selfishness and hardheartedness.  The reason for this is that we are doing marriage out of lawlessness. Lawlessness is rejecting the word of God for all we do and doing things own our own. The word of God is the law of life in this life. Without it we are wandering in the wilderness and harming ourselves.