DIVERSITY IN MARRIAGE

DIVERSITY IN MARRIAGE

Thursday, January 14, 2016

Genesis [ESV] 2:15-25 The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die." Then the LORD God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him." Now out of the ground the LORD God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.

2Corinthians 6:14-15 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? [Βελίαλ; Belial; bel-ee'-al:Of Hebrew origin [H1100]; worthlessness; Belial, as an epithet of Satan: - Belial.] Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever?

  All marriages are made up of two diverse individuals, and if procreative are complicated by a brood of dissimilar individuals with all continually constructing and destructing within their individual maturation or lack thereof.

  When a body thinks about it, every marriage since the wedge of pride and shame, has been and is troublesome; since pre fig leaf Eden there is no marriages between sinless man and woman.     

“completely compatible” is a myth. However, a well-matched marriage, attuned toward godly agape love, committed and respectful, companionable fellowship in goals set forth in God’s Word, prioritized with committed determinations, is possible: After Eden married couples and families are not left without sensible recourse; God provided before, He provided after, He provides now. The question being do we seek, read, study, implement His Word on the matter of marriage and family?

  For example: In contemplating marriage to individual different from us, do we consider just how different holds the best potential for a God-pleasing productive marriage and family. (Addressing an oft posed question: There is no biblical prohibition against interracial marriage. Though not so much as yesteryear, to do so however could be very problematic. Note Numbers 12)

  Absolutely leaving one’s family for matrimony is not easy for every couple saying “I do” or “I give”. In the ceremonial stepping away there may be invisible but emotionally real tethering thread, rope, or reins that jerks the marriage to and fro. (Gen.2:24; Mt.19:5; Mk.10:7)

  There are numerous other observations I could list, but two principle guidelines to initially keep in mind when considering marriage are godly commitment as opposed to embracing unequal yoking; if an ox, don’t think you can simply by choice happily yoke and plow productively with a donkey. (Deut.22:9-10)  EBB4