Wednesday // 28th February 2024
The profound mystery of marriage!
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Ephesians 5:31,32
There is an astounding unity in marriage! The assertion that men and women become “one flesh” indicates something of the mental and spiritual depth of marriage — an exchange of soul. Marriage ideally produces two people who are as much the same person as two people can be!
An amazing bonding takes place among the children of a godly family. They are from the same flesh interwoven with each other. This is because they are the product of a spiritual union of marriage — a mutual appropriation of each other’s lives.
This is, indeed, a mystery — which partially illustrates the even deeper marital union of Christ and the Church. And this is why the text often uses descriptive language when speaking of Christ and husbands and the Church and wives at the same time.
Marriage is the mystery where the discipline of sacrificial love and sanctifying love is most explicitly expressed. No doubt the Bible commands in Hebrews 13:4 that marriage must be esteemed worthy, precious, of great price, and especially dear in all things. And thus let the marriage bed be kept undishonored; for God will judge and punish the unchaste all guilty of sexual vice and adulterous.
Your brother in Christ,
Apostle Ashok Martin
The profound mystery of marriage!
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Ephesians 5:31,32
There is an astounding unity in marriage! The assertion that men and women become “one flesh” indicates something of the mental and spiritual depth of marriage — an exchange of soul. Marriage ideally produces two people who are as much the same person as two people can be!
An amazing bonding takes place among the children of a godly family. They are from the same flesh interwoven with each other. This is because they are the product of a spiritual union of marriage — a mutual appropriation of each other’s lives.
This is, indeed, a mystery — which partially illustrates the even deeper marital union of Christ and the Church. And this is why the text often uses descriptive language when speaking of Christ and husbands and the Church and wives at the same time.
Marriage is the mystery where the discipline of sacrificial love and sanctifying love is most explicitly expressed. No doubt the Bible commands in Hebrews 13:4 that marriage must be esteemed worthy, precious, of great price, and especially dear in all things. And thus let the marriage bed be kept undishonored; for God will judge and punish the unchaste all guilty of sexual vice and adulterous.
Your brother in Christ,
Apostle Ashok Martin