GODLY PRINCIPLES FOR MARITAL BONDING (9)
A while back, we used a home as the place for hosting guest ministers during our convention. We needed a fan to cool down the room. There was a portable air conditioner in the house. We moved it into one of the rooms for use.
Unfortunately, when we plugged it in, we started perceiving a smell. When we moved close enough to observe, we knew we had made a foundational mistake. It was a 110-volt device that we plugged into a 220-volt power source. It was too late. We could not use the device.
It was an avoidable mistake. All we needed to have done was ask the owner and engage the device according to the prescription of the manufacturer.
It is strange to see how many people engage in marital affairs without recourse to the one who instituted marriage and His patterns and instructions.
Let’s examine some of the conflicts:
First, the Lord said, “For this reason, a man shall leave his father and mother…” You see a man who is still attached physically, financially, and emotionally to his mother’s apron and his father’s pocket, trying to get married now.
Every decision that needs to be made in their home still needs the approval of the parents. If the parents are not ‘happy’ with a family decision, he comes back home to convince his wife that it is not a good idea.
He married a woman who wears trousers, but now you are forcing her to stop because Daddy and Mummy does not like it.
Do you know what it means to “cleave”?
Second, “…and he shall cleave to his wife”. Did you see that word “wife”? You do not become a wife until you are scripturally so.
How on earth did you move your things one evening at a time into the house of a “boyfriend”? Your excuse is that his place is closer to your office. It saves you costs. At what price? The price of disobedience. You came in with one cloth and now you have a full wardrobe. You warm his food and now warm his bed because it is “weather for two.”
Deep within, you know that is not the pathway to follow, but you keep shrugging it off. This is your warning again- Leave! You are not his wife yet.
And if you are a man who has packed your things stylistically into a woman’s house, what do we even say to these things?
Are you wiser than God and His word?
If you want a scriptural marriage, submit to the Word of the Lord.
© temilOluwa Ola, Eruwa.
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