One flesh

Remember your first love.

Place him as a seal on your arm ..as a seal Upon your heart

Nothing shall separate you from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus. 

So many times this chapter has been read.. 

Some may have never read the scriptures for themselves yet many have been graced to hear these words. Which are the description of who Christ our first love is.

1 cor 13

As we demonstrate any of these characteristics, we are truly emulating Christ. 

Is 54  take the pressure off your spouse a bit..

he is who we turn to. His great counsel never fails. He is closer than a brother..We are secure in His love ... His love is truly all we need.

Eph 5:21-33

How do we know our personal responsibility? We have been given clear instructions! Praise Him for that! :) 

wives submit as unto The Lord. You and your husband are under his umbrella.. As you submit to The Lord and his perfect love that casts away all fear...he will lift you up.

Husbands love your wives.. Your love is a purifying tonic.. It says that loving your wife is actually showing love to yourself.

We go into marriage with such great expectations for ourselves..

Yet our God, the father most definitely has even greater expectations for us..

More than validating your feelings or wants

He wants you to see him. See his face when you respect your husband. See his heart when you cherish your bride. 

He wants you to be him.. His hands and feet and His heart. An extension of all he is. That is where our focus needs to be. 

We can sometimes fall into  focusing on those things our spouse is not doing for us.. let us focus on how we can touch the heart of God by loving, serving and respecting our spouse.

Only his love in you will be able to secure the love you both desire to share in this life together. This new life of becoming one flesh .. 

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Marriage synonyms:

union, alliance, fusion, mixture, mix, blend, amalgamation, combination, merge

Life exchange-ring exchange vow exchange

 And further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of his body, the church. As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything. 

There are a few ways submission is described

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For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word. He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault. In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man who loves his wife actually shows love for himself. As the Scriptures say, “A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.” This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one. So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. (Ephesians 5:21-33 NLT)

This passage shows leadership,

It shows how your love and cherishing your bride is a tonic that purifies her and makes her even more beautiful. That it bring life and goodness and love for yourself.

Let love be your compass 

With word and action

Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love. (1 Corinthians 13:4-7, 13 NLT)

All who confess that Jesus is the Son of God have God living in them, and they live in God. We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love. 

God is love,

 and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect. We love each other because he loved us first. (1 John 4:15-19 NLT)

Jesus has you... he delights in you, he cherishes you, he is your great champion! When you feel alone or confused...he is there.. he is tender.. he hears you and he is faithful to complete what he has started.

The father has you. He is able, he has perfect counsel, he is closer than a brother, he will never fail you he has a plan for you.. for your family... He will be your strength and help.

And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:38, 39 NLT)

Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as enduring as the grave. Love flashes like fire, the brightest kind of flame. Many waters cannot quench love, nor can rivers drown it. If a man tried to buy love with all his wealth, his offer would be utterly scorned. (Song of Songs 8:6, 7 NLT)