"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 unashamed." (Genesis 2:24-25).
What's interesting to note is this first piece "therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother". Is there not a better defnintion for "being engaged" than this? Is not this the process? Separation from the parents? Leaving something old...to begin something new?
There is great parallel here to understanding our "new life" in Christ. "For the old is gone; behold the new has come".
The second piece "hold fast to his wife"; is this not in the vows? "To have and to hold?" This seems actually maybe to be the full sum of them. "Through the thick and thin, through the sun and through the darkness, and through death do us part...I will always hold you.
The third piece "and they shall become one flesh" is OH so divine. Is this not what takes place when we accept Christ to come live in us by faith? We become One. "The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one. I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one... (John 17:22-24)" What Christ did on the cross for us, through his atoning blood, and what He did for us by His resurrection was bringing us INTO COVENANT. HOLY COVENANT. A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP. Is this not a grand picture for marriage??
The fourth piece "and the man and his wife were both naked and unashamed." LOOK HERE! NO GUILT! Is this not what Jesus did on the cross? Did He not take away ALL our sin by His blood? Did He not remove all the guilt? And therefore seeing us completely forgiven, He can see us completely "blameless, and without spot"??!! "For there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." (Romans 8:1)
LET FREEDOM RING! Because it is a flat lie that marriage "ties you down" and is "all ball and chain"
Hope everybody has a good weekend! Eat your veggies!
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