Death is coming

The closer death creeps up upon me the less I am able to understand the reasons for life or living.

Yes I have experienced a close family member dying and unlike television it takes decades to handle such a thing. To think I am going to put my family through such a thing when I finally leave is more horrific to me than the thought of death itself.

My life was and is still a learning experience but when all said and done what am I to do with all this accumulated learning over my lifetime if I just die. There is no logic or reason to this.

Long ago I became aware that the God story that is sold to the majority is just a nice story to give mankind with a message of a basic layout of how nice life could be if everyone followed these ideas. Not many in life do and if one thinks about it the good and evil structures actually depend on each other. The good that can be experienced in life is only understood as good when there is it's opposite to compare it to. This is not rocket science only common sense in reality. I am not saying we need to experience bad but understanding in it is needed to appreciate the great things many of us can have in our lives. From birth to death there are many ways mankind helps his fellow man. How many ways can you help?


Sunday, September 4, 2011

Christian Marriage: God's Ways Are Higher

By John Beastley


So what is a Christian Marriage? "We are generally confessed Christians which have chose to enter married life." Is there significantly more to successfully clearly define matrimony? This entire blog is going to be specialized in the indisputable fact that Christian marriage is certainly really different. It is extremely important to learn to read God's Word that we might better see the foundation of holy matrimony as He created it. I am convinced that one explanation for why we have become hit a brick wall in marriage happens because many of us lack God's vision regarding it.

Let's take a look at Ephesians 2:21-32 in figuring out the main question mentioned above. Ephesians 5:21-32 (Today's New International Version) Directions designed for Christian Homes 21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. 22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, people have never hated their own bodies, but they feed and care for them, just as Christ does the church- 30 for we are members of his body. 31 "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh." 32 This is a profound mystery-but I am talking about Christ and the church.

To find a far more in-depth description of this particular verse, I would suggest viewing Bob Deffinbaugh's study tips. This specific passage reveals a basic commandment towards the Christian Marriage: Wives: Submit to your own husband. Husbands: Love your wives just like Christ loved the church.

I find it significant that God put no conditions on the commandment for the two of us. It is important to remember that we are going to each be held responsible for each of our own ways. Not to be able to excuse the women by any means, but I do think at least one reason several ladies have an issue with submission stems from the possibility that a number of us men do not really love as Christ.

None among us will always be successful at satisfying this Christian Marriage obligation, however it must be a target we try to achieve every day. It is regarded as one of many major distinguishing aspects from a "worldly marriage". Challenge: Verbally convey to your spouse that you want to spend the upcoming full week paying much closer focus on achieving your own God-given obligation. Keep a log of essential experiences intended for discussion at the conclusion of the week.




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