by Angie Lewis

Created on: March 16, 2010

Many of you reading this may not know that God designed marriage to work according to the way he created the man and the woman. Each gender has its own marital duties that when practiced appropriately make the marriage thrive. “The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.” (1 Corinthians 7:3)

What are the martial duties that scripture is talking about?  Understand that in a Christ-built marriage the husband has responsibilities and the wife has responsibilities, lest the marriage would have no purpose and no direction.  When both the husband and the wife are practicing their duties properly it keeps the relationship structured, organized, and spiritually blessed. Everyone is happy, no one is in need of anything, and no one is looking outside the bounds of the marriage for companionship.

“Wives submit to your husbands as to the Lord”. (Ephesians 5:22) It is a wife’s duty to submit to her husband. God created a hierarchy in marriage according to how he created men and women. Jesus Christ is head over the husband and husbands are head over the wife in just the same way that Christ is head over the church, his body, of which he is the Savior”. (Ephesians 5:23) This does not mean that man is superior to the woman.

In God’s eyes men and women are equal heirs of His kingdom, and that’s all that matters!  In society there is a push and shove mentality that the different sexes exhibit with each other from time to time, but it doesn’t mean a thing! You can’t take this life to heaven with you. Why work so hard proving something that you cannot take to heaven with you?  In fact, you will not see heaven if you are so burdened in this life with things of the flesh. “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” (Matthew 6:19-21)

God chose to make Eve out of Adams flesh and bones, which illustrates that in marriage man and woman symbolically become “one flesh”.  The goal in marriage should always be of “oneness” between husband and wife. Do you see “oneness” in marriage today? The wife is doing her own thing and the husband is doing his own thing. They each have their own jobs, their own money, their own friends, etc. Are we honoring God with our marriage, or satan? Where is the oneness? Why are we not procuring for ourselves spiritual treasures that we can take to heaven with us?

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