A Biblical Love Story (part six)

 The wedding rings that couples exchange on their special day, are a wonderful and beautiful expression of our love for someone that we have come to love.

And yet, as we know, they are not what hold a marriage together. 

Anyone that has been married for awhile would agree, that after the honeymoon has worn off, marriage is a lot of hard work, and not the fairy tale pictures we see in our minds, as we prepare for and dream about the life we are about to take part in, with another person.

The Bible clearly lays out for us, what marriage really is, according to what God says about it. And we can also find it at the site I have used it for the past few days concerning the topic of Ruth and Boaz at:  The unique Love story of Ruth & Boaz - Good News of the Gospel Way

Please read on....

A Model for our marriages

The way Jesus (and Boaz) paid to redeem and then win his bride models how we can build our marriages.  The Bible explains how we establish our marriages:

Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— 30 for we are members of his body. 31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” 32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. Ephesians 5:21-33

As Boaz and Ruth established their marriage on love and respect, and Jesus’ care for the church is a model for husbands to love their wives sacrificially, so we do well to build our marriages on these same values.

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Marriage is serious business. It should never be taken lightly. And first and foremost, Christ should be at the head of a couple that are coming together to create a family.

Easy? Well, in my almost 70 years on this earth, and 50 of them being married to one man, I have never seen one marriage that was without its share of problems. But I can say, that those that are truly committed to Christ, have been the most successful. 

As humans, we stumble and fall in this life. And we make mistake and sometimes we want our way. But God is there to help us through the rough times if we don't give up and we turn to him.

Marriage really is hard work. But God is there for us when we stumble and fall in this part of life. After all, sin is all around us. From the time of Adam and Eve, to now, to until Jesus comes back. We just have to trust in him to get us through the tough times of marriage. Because he will if we ask him.

Did you know that you and I have a very special wedding invitation that will be like no other wedding we have been invited to? Come back and check it out in tomorrow's post. It will be the most beautiful even that our minds can even fathom. 

Thanks for stopping by! Praise be to God our Father and blessings to you!