RIGHT CHARACTER FOR RIGHT MARRIAGE
With Faith Oyedepo
Dear Reader,
Happy Easter to you in Jesus’ Name! When Jesus rose from the dead, it
was a time of joy for His disciples. They had seen the fulfilment of
prophecy. Their long-awaited dreams had come to pass at last. That shall
be your portion this Easter season, in Jesus’ Name.
I am glad to inform you that God cares about you. He wants you and
your family to succeed. Throughout this month, I will be taking you
through a topic which I titled: Right Character for right marriage.
God wills that you succeed in your marital life, but there are vices
you need to guard against. It is based on this that I will be pointing
out some of these vices and how to combat them, in order to reap the joy
and blessings of marriage.
Many times as two grown up individuals matured in age and mind, ready
for marriage, come together to start a family, there are deceptive
thoughts that cross their minds, making them feel that marriage is the
solution to all their problems.
A young girl with nagging parents and accommodation problems may feel
it is an escape route from her troublesome circumstances. A lady with
financial problems may feel marrying a rich man will solve her battle
with the forces of poverty. To a man, he may feel marriage will solve
his problem of having to get a cook or someone to clean the house or it
will earn him that promotion he has been long awaiting for in his
office. Besides, some believe that marriage will help them to solve
their problems of irresponsibility. Despite these ideas, marriage does
not automatically lift a man above the works of the flesh, “the vices of
the flesh.” Yielding to the flesh or wrong attitudes account for the
heartache many families are still experiencing in their homes today. The
Scripture says: Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are
these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry,
witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions,
heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like… (Galatians 5:19-21).
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