Embracing The OTHER SIDE – Part 2
You see, when it comes to styles families adopt, it boils down more to specificity and uniqueness than collectivity and generalization.
Truly, the scriptures set the template for marriage, notwithstanding, how each couple run theirs is unique in several ways while being similar in other ways.
1 Thessalonians 4:4 GNT charges us thus “Each of you should know how to live with your wife in a holy and honorable way.”
We are wired differently by God and for His purpose, hence, no two families are exactly thesame, otherwise, one is running off-course.
Our uniqueness is what God requires in building His desired pleasure.
Jeremiah 1:5 though speaks to Jeremiah, shows how that our callings in life are unique.
“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I set you apart for my holy purpose. I appointed you to be a prophet to the nations.”
Husband and wife embracing God’s Word should through learning themselves, determine what is best suit at every point in time while upholding the precepts of Godliness.
One family pray together in the morning, another at night, yet same God. In one family, both parents are corporate employees, for another one is stay-home. One family operates sex-based duties, another, non sex-based.
As long as God’s ordinance of marriage is upheld in love, there are no limits.
Conclusively, Apostle Paul in Romans 14:6-8, 12-16 AMPC
ties it together “He who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. He also who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God; while he who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God. [7] None of us lives to himself [but to the Lord], and none of us dies to himself [but to the Lord, for] [8] If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or we die, we belong to the Lord. [12] And so each of us shall give an account of himself [give an answer in reference to judgment] to God. [13] Then let us no more criticize and blame and pass judgment on one another, but rather decide and endeavor never to put a stumbling block or an obstacle or a hindrance in the way of a brother. [14] I know and am convinced (persuaded) as one in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is [forbidden as] essentially unclean (defiled and unholy in itself). But [none the less] it is unclean (defiled and unholy) to anyone who thinks it is unclean. [15] But if your brother is being pained or his feelings hurt or if he is being injured by what you eat, [then] you are no longer walking in love. [You have ceased to be living and conducting yourself by the standard of love toward him.] Do not let what you eat hurt or cause the ruin of one for whom Christ died! [16] Do not therefore let what seems good to you be considered an evil thing [by someone else]. [In other words, do not give occasion for others to criticize that which is justifiable for you.]
Let the love of Christ, not self-centeredness reign in every kind of liberty we choose to exercise, even in marriage.
Shalom.
David Nkenchor ( P.D ) Point-Man, MOK Happily Married with Children Pastor/Counselor/Life- Coach
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