Although there are many facets to marriage, let’s focus on how love and profit relate.
The world, on the other hand, encourages individualism, which leads to isolation. Children are encouraged to draw away from their families, indulging their own appetites. The heroes of entertainment portray lives of hedonism and selfishness.
You can see why the first job of any religion is to define purpose. Why are you here? The whole of Scripture asserts that this life is the seedtime of eternity. Your only purpose for living this life is to prepare for an eternity with God.
Your marriage is bound by an inviolable covenant. You will never be able to replace the wife of your youth, no matter how attractive the options may appear, and God warns you not to try.
A request becomes a law simply because people rebel. When you make a law it indicates a breakdown in the relationship.
Unity and union are not the same. You can unite in marriage, and thus be in union with one another, and not have unity.
For your marriage to stay on track, you must preach your own sermon to yourself. The prayer of the spouse should always be, “God make me a better partner.”
Scripture tends to speak to us at the point of our weakness. If the weakness of the wife consists in her reluctance to submit to her husband, the husband’s weakness is his failure to love his wife.
The submissive wife must have confidence that God is greater than her husband and is willing to protect her from his mistakes.
You have become emotionally yoked, a yoke you are not willing to break. So you compromise God’s standards for worldly comforts.
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