rules of marriage
FIVE RULES OF MARRIAGE
Wherefore they are no more twain, but
one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Matthew 19:6
I’ll use Ruth’s statement to Naomi to
explain what becoming one in marriage means. Read this verse again and again.
But Ruth said: "Entreat me not
to leave you, Or to turn back from following after you; For wherever you go, I
will go; And wherever you lodge, I will lodge; Your people shall be my people,
And your God, my God. Where you die, I will die, And there will I be buried.
The LORD do so to me, and more also, If anything but death parts you and
me."
When she saw that she was determined
to go with her, she stopped speaking to her. Ruth 1:16-18
1. When
you are married to a man, you must follow him wherever he goes: most women who
leave their husband and live in a distant city are breaking the rules of
marriage and are putting their marriage at risk. When your husband is working
in a distant city from where you are working, don’t leave him alone, join him
wherever he goes, even when it needs leaving your job. Marriages have broken
because the man and his wife weren’t together all the time.
2. Lodge
where he lodges: if your father’s house is more comfortable than your husband’s
place, don’t leave your husband’s place for it neither should you have a
separate room from that of your husband; share the same room. Your marriage is
at risk when you have a separate room from his.
3. See
his people as yours: when you get married, you didn’t just marry the man, you
marry all of his people. See his parents and siblings and relatives as yours
and treat them just the way you treat yours. Even when your husband doesn’t
relate well with his family, don’t join him, make his people yours. Those that
separate themselves from their husband’s people are breaking the rules of
married and may lose it.
4. Accept
his faith: when you join a man, you’ve accepted his doctrines and faith. Don’t
have a different church from his, if he doesn’t join your church, join his.
Never have a separate church from that of your husband. If you can’t go to his
church don’t marry him. The devil finds loophole in marriages where the couples
are of separate faith or church. Never marry someone of different faith with
yours.
5. Decide
no divorce but only death would do you part: when you don’t make resolution to
remain in your marriage whether good or bad, you won’t last in it. Decide and
be determined that it’s only death that would do you part. When your marriage
has a problem, don’t seek for divorce as a means of finding a solution, face
the problem with all you’ve got and solve it.
In every successful married you see,
it’s the decision of the spouse to make it work that sustains it.
You are not ready for marriage if you
are not ready to keep to these rules.
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