The Precious Bond

Ephesians  5:24  

"Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, 

so let the wives be to their own 

husbands in every thing." 

    Throughout the years the Christians view of marriage has come to be widely accepted. However, it seems that even where practice has fallen short of the christian ideal of marriage.  Marriage is regarded as the perfect union of body, mind and spirit between a man and a woman. But things were very different when Paul wrote this passage.
    In this passage Paul is setting forth an ideal that is shone with a radiant purity in an immoral world. When Paul wrote this passage he was not stating the view that every man held. He was calling men and women to a new purity and a new fellowship in the married life. There are things that Paul wrote about marriage that puzzles and may make us wish that he had never written them.
    My Friends, the blunt truth is that Paul's teaching is that marriage is permissible merely in order to avoid something worse. "Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband," (1 Cor. 7:2). There was a reason why Paul wrote like this. It was because they were expecting the Second Coming of Jesus in any hour. It was his conviction and it should be ours as well; "that no one should undertake any earthly ties whatsoever, but that all should concentrate on using the short time which remained in preparing for the coming of their Lord." "The unmarried man is anxious about the affairs of the Lord, how to please the Lord; but the married man is anxious about worldly affairs, and how to please his wife.
    In this day of our Lord, not many married couples are standing up to how Paul wrote about marriage. Listen if you are a Christian married couple, and I mean Biblical, or a married couple that don't know Jesus Christ as your saviour, there should be no difference in the Marriage Bond That God Established In Your Marriage. 
    The problem that married couples face today are all self inflicted.  We do it to ourselves! We do little things that hurt each other and never say anything to our partner until you yourself lets it blow out of proportion. I don't care what anyone says; "they can not read or assume they know exactly how their partner thinks or would react to situations in their marriage." My Friends, we can only take what Paul wrote as a guide line, But that guide line is a "Marriage Bond Established By God" I will not quote Eph. 5:24, But I will say Husbands and wife's, "Love Each Other As Christ Loved You, And Subject Yourselves To Each Other In All Things." (Minister Robert Lail Sr.) 
Amen!

Reading: (Eph. 5:22-33)

Ref: (HG SB)

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry