MARRIAGE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS
After almost 39 ½ years of marriage, four children, and thirteen grandchildren, I have found that marriage and righteousness seem to be synonymous.
In our segment today, we address the comparisons of righteousness and marriage.
In our segment today, we address the comparisons of righteousness and marriage.
Both require a great deal of commitment and both in return give satisfaction and contentment.
The scriptures tell us: 1 Timothy 6:6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.; and as well, marriage with contentment is also great gain. One might say, why is it gain? Simply because the marriages of contentment, are typically filled with much love, trust, joy, peace, happiness, gentleness, kindness, laughter, and success; much like the fruits of the Spirit.
Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith. You see, they’re almost identical in nature.
Righteousness requires perseverance, long suffering, and patience, as does a marriage that works. Righteousness needs continual prayer, as like a marriage that will withstand the challenges of life.
Righteousness is forgiving, and always willing to help. On the other hand marriage is a life of all giving, to each other. ( love, understanding, and trust). As righteousness admonishes us to “present your bodies a living sacrifice: Romans 12: 1. Likewise in marriage, we must present our bodies to one another. Listen to the scriptures: 1 Corinthians 7:4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. All these similarities lets us know that the Lord has fashioned the church after a marriage
The scriptures tell us: 1 Timothy 6:6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.; and as well, marriage with contentment is also great gain. One might say, why is it gain? Simply because the marriages of contentment, are typically filled with much love, trust, joy, peace, happiness, gentleness, kindness, laughter, and success; much like the fruits of the Spirit.
Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith. You see, they’re almost identical in nature.
Righteousness requires perseverance, long suffering, and patience, as does a marriage that works. Righteousness needs continual prayer, as like a marriage that will withstand the challenges of life.
Righteousness is forgiving, and always willing to help. On the other hand marriage is a life of all giving, to each other. ( love, understanding, and trust). As righteousness admonishes us to “present your bodies a living sacrifice: Romans 12: 1. Likewise in marriage, we must present our bodies to one another. Listen to the scriptures: 1 Corinthians 7:4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. All these similarities lets us know that the Lord has fashioned the church after a marriage
The secret however, is to become ONE. Matthew 19:5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
Allow me to close with this: God has set in the earth a perfect plan for Love , Health, contentment, and most of all happiness. 3 John 1:2 Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. Get the point?
You’re Blessed!
You’re Blessed!
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