COUPLE BECOMING "ONE FRESH"

In genesis 2:24, God says: "For this cause a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh". 

One flesh is a complete coming together of a man and a woman in three areas: physically, emotionally, and spiritually. It is spiritual intimacy that drives the "one flesh" relationship in a marriage. Spiritual intimacy is how you tap into the word of God and put it to work in your marriage. To love each other with God's love, you must be connected to Him as a couple. You must join spiritually. The secret to breathing new life into a dead love is becoming one flesh, spiritually. Spiritual bonding is consistently placing God at the very center of your relationship and growing ever closer to Him as a couple. When couple spiritually bond, it is no longer the two of them that is doing the loving. it is God Himself doing the loving. When you are unable to love your partner anymore, and your marriage is falling apart, God steps in to do the loving. He will love your partner through you. If you have a non-Christian spouse, then your challenge is to follow I Peter 3:1-4 and model a vibrant, healthy Christian life. The closer you are to God, the more deeply and unconditionally you can love your partner. God's love, working through you, will make all the difference in your mate and in your marriage.  

Human love must always runs out 0f gas (die) - The first thing couple must understand when they get married is that the initial tankful of physical passion and emotional intimacy that fuels their marriage can only take you few years down the road. That's it. Every married couple's love dies. Every single one! Just like a car running out of gas, your tank will unexpectedly go dry, and you'll coast to a stop. There are millions of stalled marriages on the highway of life. Human love, powered by human strength, was never designed by God to carry marriages forty to fifty years. Only God can give you an intimate passionate and permanent love.

True love in a marriage is all about trust (having confidence and total reliance on the good virtues and ability of your partner), openness (being frank and honest to each other), transparency without secrecy (being transparent without keeping a secret from each other) and all that God represents ( inner joy, peace, love, faithfulness, goodness, patience). The understanding and determination to apply the above features daily is the beginning of wisdom to excel in your marriage against all odds.

Together couples stand in one single purpose which is to honour and glorify God but divided in this purpose they fall. May God instill in the heart of all the married a soul that is craving for Him and a heart that cling passionately to Him so that their marriages will bring glory, honour and joy to His name in Jesus name, Amen!.