KNOWING AND DOING GOD'S WILL IN MARRIAGE

Why marriage is called an institution? Not all relationships fall under this category. Knowing and doing the will of God defines marriage as the foundation stone for any civilization, culture and country. Population of people makes a village, town and city. Families are the legal and traditional way of making babies.

Babies are cared for in a married environment by a husband and wife called parents. The moment they bring a biological child out of their sexual love they become parents. These families define a political map like counties, states, countries and continents.

Politics and government are necessary to regulate, protect and provide for these families. This is how the necessity for kings, rulers and leaders came about. So without any family founded on marriage grounds, the children will be illegitimate and parentless. Knowing and doing the will of God will teach you this as a ground rule for human survival.

We are trying to define new meanings for family these days. It will not work well. Externally you can live any way you want and get away with it from the society. You can wiggle your way through all the legal implications. But when you face your inner man your conscience is troubled with an unsettled inner soul.

When God created human race, the first thing he provides to the man is another human with a different sexual entity. He called it female. God in his image is male and female. We are created in the image of God. So marriage brings them into one entity. That is how a family functions in marriage. One flesh and one unit to which the children run to.

Marriage is the only relationship where two people learn Knowing and doing the will of God together. No other relationship can provide this oneness. It is also the most difficult to practice. It requires sacrifice and adjustments from both parties. One alone cannot run it. Unless both unite and work together with a common purpose and goal it will fail.

Knowing and doing the will of God is put to ultimate test in a marriage. Obedience to basic principles laid down in the bible like love your neighbor starts in marriage. Sometimes the most difficult person to love and forgive is your spouse.

This is a serious issue that people are not willing to face up to. If you can perfectly learn to love your spouse and forgive every time you find a fault, you have perfected love. This is how you are going to learn to love others including your children.

Knowing and doing the will of God is not a theory and sermon title. It is the only code by which a human being can experience and express the purpose of creation.

Why marriage is called an institution? Not all relationships fall under this category. Knowing and doing the will of God defines marriage as the foundation stone for any civilization, culture and country. Population of people makes a village, town and city. Families are the legal and traditional way of making babies.

Babies are cared for in a married environment by a husband and wife called parents. The moment they bring a biological child out of their sexual love they become parents. These families define a political map like counties, states, countries and continents.

Politics and government are necessary to regulate, protect and provide for these families. This is how the necessity for kings, rulers and leaders came about. So without any family founded on marriage grounds, the children will be illegitimate and parentless. Knowing and doing the will of God will teach you this as a ground rule for human survival.

We are trying to define new meanings for family these days. It will not work well. Externally you can live any way you want and get away with it from the society. You can wiggle your way through all the legal implications. But when you face your inner man your conscience is troubled with an unsettled inner soul.

When God created human race, the first thing he provides to the man is another human with a different sexual entity. He called it female. God in his image is male and female. We are created in the image of God. So marriage brings them into one entity. That is how a family functions in marriage. One flesh and one unit to which the children run to.

Marriage is the only relationship where two people learn Knowing and doing the will of God together. No other relationship can provide this oneness. It is also the most difficult to practice. It requires sacrifice and adjustments from both parties. One alone cannot run it. Unless both unite and work together with a common purpose and goal it will fail.

Knowing and doing the will of God is put to ultimate test in a marriage. Obedience to basic principles laid down in the bible like love your neighbor starts in marriage. Sometimes the most difficult person to love and forgive is your spouse.

This is a serious issue that people are not willing to face up to. If you can perfectly learn to love your spouse and forgive every time you find a fault, you have perfected love. This is how you are going to learn to love others including your children.

Knowing and doing the will of God is not a theory and sermon title. It is the only code by which a human being can experience and express the purpose of creation.

This article was contributed by Robert R. Fenn