Maximizing Your Marriage - Pt 2
- Ken Ramey
- Feb 21, 2010
- Series: Selected Scriptures
Maximizing Your Marriage - Part 2
Selected Scriptures
While both the husband and wife play a significant role in achieving and maintaining a happy, God-honoring marriage, the primary burden for the state of the marriage relationship clearly rests on the husband's shoulders since he is the God-appointed leader and the one who ultimately will have to give an account to God someday for the marriage. Therefore, he must be faithful to follow the two instructions God gave to husbands in 1 Peter 3:7 regarding how they should treat their wives. If you are a husband, you are called to
1) PURSUE YOUR WIFE and
2) PRIZE YOUR WIFE
Husbands are the ones who represent the role of Christ in the marriage union. As such, they should provide Christ-like, loving leadership to their wives. Romans 5:8 and 1 John 4:19 teach that husbands are called to be the leaders, the lovers, and the pursuers of their wives. Indeed, every husband needs to remember that the most important thing to a wife is to know that, next to Christ, they are the most important thing in their husband's life.
Is God getting the maximum amount of glory from your marriage?
Are you getting the maximum amount of enjoyment from your marriage?
None of us should settle for anything but the greatest marriage possible. We should be living our marriages such that they exemplify the bond between Christ and the church. That's the way that God intended marriages to be.
We should be ever mindful that our marriage can either mar or magnify Christ's love for His church and that while we are called to enjoy the marriage that God has given us, we are to live it in such a way as to brings glory to Him.
