..Love Whom You Have Married
Genesis 24:67 KJV
“And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.”
I was pleasantly surprised to see that the second mention of love in the entire Bible had to do with marriage. On the other hand, it only showed the consistent nature of God. In the order of things, God should come first in our lives, and next to Him should be our spouses. Doing it any other way will spell disaster and doom for your personal life. You cannot love your children, business, career or ministry above your spouse. The next best recipient of your love should be your spouse and no one else. The reason is because Jesus commanded us to love our neighbour as ourselves, and your spouse is your first neighbour. If you cannot love your closest neighbour, then every other show of love is fake.
As a couple, the best kind of care and love you can show to your children is in loving yourselves.
That would be your way of both teaching them about love, as well as recruiting them for marriage. Children; when older, will ultimately play out all the things they saw and heard their parents do while growing up.
Lastly, you will notice that Isaac took Rebekah, and she became his wife. Then the Bible says, ‘and he loved her’. The question here is, didn’t he love her before she became his wife? Of course, he did.
But the love that brings you into marriage is not the love that keeps you in marriage. Chemistry may have brought you into marriage, but it will take agape to keep you married. Agape is the God-kind of love. It is an unconditional kind of love. Some people get married and tell their spouses that they don’t love them anymore. What they are saying is that they no longer have that chemistry, whereas they are supposed to have agape. They fail to understand that eros or erotic love, as well as other forms of attraction will have to give way to the real love.
This is how I will love to summarize this; “after you have married whom you loved, you must love whom you have married”. That is the summary of what Isaac did.
Receive marital grace in Jesus Name.
Action Points/Prayer
i. Lord I repent of all forms of mistreatment I may have done to my spouse all in the name of not loving him or her anymore.
ii. I receive the grace from today to love whom I have married in Jesus Name.
iii. I receive and walk in agape love in my home and marriage in Jesus Name.
Nugget
The love that brings you into marriage is not the love that keeps you in marriage. Chemistry may bring you in, but it will take agape to keep you married.
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