The passage I read today was from Ephesians 5:21-33. This passage discusses the roles of husbands and wives. Any woman who has grown up in the church knows that the woman's role in a marriage is to submit. I have heard it a thousand times. However, God totally changed the way I view submission. I have always just thought of it as something that I will have to do someday when (Lord willing) I get married. It is so much more than that! Ephesians 5:22 says "Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. This doesn't mean that women are supposed to view their husbands as Lord, but that when a woman submits to her husband, she is serving the Lord. It's not just something I will have to do someday, it's another way that I can live my life to glorify God!
The passage also discusses the role of husbands. While it is easy for me to think: okay this is yet another thing that doesn't apply to me, that's not true at all! I need to make sure that whoever I will someday marry is capable of carrying out his role according to God's word. I need to be sure that he is someone who will love me sacrificially and in a way that will encourage purity. Ephesians 5:25-27 says "Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish."
While it is important for the husband and the wife to carry out their roles in a marriage, it all means nothing if they do not have Christ as their foundation. I don't know when I will get married, but I want the purpose of my marriage to be to bring glory to God by showing the love of Christ.
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