Excerpt from: Staying in love for a lifetime by Ed Wheat
1. The idea of male and female was God's idea - "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them" Gen 1:27
2. Marriage Was designed by God to meet the first problem of the human race: loneliness ~...And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof ; and the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. Gen 2: 18 - 22. Marriage always begins with a need that has been there from the dawn of time, a need for companionship and completion that God understands. Marriage was designed to relieve the fundamental loneliness that every human experiences.
3. Marriage was planned and decreed to bring happiness, not misery. - " And Adam said, this is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man" (Gen 2:23). So, when the Lord brought the woman to Adam, the man expressed his feelings in words like these. "I have finally found the one who can complete me, who takes away my loneliness, who will be as dear to me as my own flesh. She is so beautiful! She is perfectly suited to me. She is all I will ever need!
4. Marriage must begin with a leaving of all other relationships in order to establish a permanent relationship between one man and one woman. ~ "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife; and they shall be one flesh" (Gen 2: 24). Understand that first of all, marriage begins with a leaving; leaving all other relationships. The man's full commitment is now to his wife. And the wife's full commitment is now to her husband. But a leaving must occur, for neither parents nor any other relationships should come between a husband and a wife. This means that you and your mate need to refocus your lives on each other rather than looking to another individual or group of people to meet your emotional needs.
5. Marriage requires an inseparable joining of husband and wife throughout their lifetime.- "Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife; and they shall be one flesh" (Gen 2:24). There is no use leaving unless you are ready to spend a lifetime cleaving. Cleaving means "to cling or to adhere".The cleaving is also intellectual, emotional and physical. It means that you will have unceasing opportunity to cleave to your partner even in the smallest details of life. It involves two characteristics; an unswerving loyalty and an active, pursuing love that will not let go.
6. Marriage means oneness in the fullest possible sense, including intimate physical union without shame. - "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, shall cleave unto his wife; and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed" (Gen 2:24-25). Although it goes deeper than the physical, becoming one flesh involves intimate physical union in sexual intercourse. And this without shame between marriage partners. The biblical expression for sexual intercourse between husband and wife is to know, an expression of profound dignity. Thus, in the divine pattern of marriage, sexual intercourse between husband and wife includes both intimate physical knowledge and a tender, intimate, personal knowledge.So the leaving, cleaving and knowing each other results in a new identity in which two individuals merge into one - one in mind, heart, body and spirit.
1. The idea of male and female was God's idea - "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them" Gen 1:27
2. Marriage Was designed by God to meet the first problem of the human race: loneliness ~...And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof ; and the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. Gen 2: 18 - 22. Marriage always begins with a need that has been there from the dawn of time, a need for companionship and completion that God understands. Marriage was designed to relieve the fundamental loneliness that every human experiences.
3. Marriage was planned and decreed to bring happiness, not misery. - " And Adam said, this is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man" (Gen 2:23). So, when the Lord brought the woman to Adam, the man expressed his feelings in words like these. "I have finally found the one who can complete me, who takes away my loneliness, who will be as dear to me as my own flesh. She is so beautiful! She is perfectly suited to me. She is all I will ever need!
4. Marriage must begin with a leaving of all other relationships in order to establish a permanent relationship between one man and one woman. ~ "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife; and they shall be one flesh" (Gen 2: 24). Understand that first of all, marriage begins with a leaving; leaving all other relationships. The man's full commitment is now to his wife. And the wife's full commitment is now to her husband. But a leaving must occur, for neither parents nor any other relationships should come between a husband and a wife. This means that you and your mate need to refocus your lives on each other rather than looking to another individual or group of people to meet your emotional needs.
5. Marriage requires an inseparable joining of husband and wife throughout their lifetime.- "Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife; and they shall be one flesh" (Gen 2:24). There is no use leaving unless you are ready to spend a lifetime cleaving. Cleaving means "to cling or to adhere".The cleaving is also intellectual, emotional and physical. It means that you will have unceasing opportunity to cleave to your partner even in the smallest details of life. It involves two characteristics; an unswerving loyalty and an active, pursuing love that will not let go.
6. Marriage means oneness in the fullest possible sense, including intimate physical union without shame. - "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, shall cleave unto his wife; and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed" (Gen 2:24-25). Although it goes deeper than the physical, becoming one flesh involves intimate physical union in sexual intercourse. And this without shame between marriage partners. The biblical expression for sexual intercourse between husband and wife is to know, an expression of profound dignity. Thus, in the divine pattern of marriage, sexual intercourse between husband and wife includes both intimate physical knowledge and a tender, intimate, personal knowledge.So the leaving, cleaving and knowing each other results in a new identity in which two individuals merge into one - one in mind, heart, body and spirit.
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