Marriage – The Great Mystery
Posted by lawsaw on June 16, 2009
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.”[c] 32This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church.33However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. Eph 5:31-33
The bible describes the union of a man and a woman as a great, profound mystery. In what sense is it a great mystery? In the sense that every marriage is imaging the relationship between Christ and the Church.
What am I saying?
In Scritpture, Christ is known as the Groom and the Church the Bride. The great marriage feast shall be on the day when Christ will return for His Bride. The relationship between this Groom and Bride is one of love and respect. (Eph 5:22-29)
Since our marriage is a tiny picture of that great Relationship, the thing to ask of us is what kind of message is it conveying? Depending on how we treat our wive and how our wive respond to us;
1) It can proclaim the truth about Christ and the Church rightly as stated above if there is love and submission
or
2) It can speak the lies of that Relationship if we treat each other shabbily
The only option our marriage does not have is to maintain silence.
