To My Wife.

To the one whom I will love and care for and raise a family with,

I am now, at a time in my life where the Spirit of God has taken hold of me and taught me many things.
He has made me aware of my weakness in the flesh and of the hope held out for me through the work of His Son.

He has cleansed me and given me grace and mercy, which I may stand on.

I have begun to discern that there is richness and security in Him and in His Word, and that those things are not of what we as human beings regard as precious.

I am to become a fully Christian man, who will lead my household in faith and obedience, and teach our children the love and faithfulness of our great God and King.

I am to learn the following and care tenderly for you, lifting our family up to our God.

Ephesians 5


 ²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her ²⁶ to make her holy, cleansing^[b] her by the washing with water through the word, ²⁷ and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. ²⁸ In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹ After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— ³⁰ for we are members of his body. 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] 32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. ³³ However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

May I be made ready for my bride, to love and to cherish you. I am to preserve all of myself, so I may be reserved for you.

God will teach me; He will not let me remain the way I am now. I wait eagerly for Him to lead me to you and eventually, us to Him.

Amen.



Why I write this, aside from showing off, I need some way to express my longing to communicate with the person whom I will join my life and spirit with. Perhaps she will read this and this will be the means that we are brought to each other; perhaps I may show her this when we begin to know one another.
I almost cannot wait for the timely goodness of the Lord to be given to me.


I must move in step with God's rhythm and not run ahead of Him, without His Spirit. 

Christian Marriage

My sister and I differ on many issues and recently we have reached another point where we disagree.
She believes that "there is nothing wrong with homosexuality" and she is all for gay marriage.
She has said that her Christian friends are "okay with it".

This has caused me to think, reflect and consult Scripture.

I woke up today to study Mark 10, where Jesus was teaching on divorce and godly marriage.
I have always heard the argument that He never specifically taught on the issue of homosexuality and he never condemned it as a serious sin.

In our present time, so many people and believers are conditioned into accepting that homosexuality is an expression of identity and self and that it is permissible and there is "nothing wrong with it".

They reject the Pauline epistle to the Romans, where homosexuality is clearly taught to be a sinful state.

Romans 1-


 ²⁴ Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. ²⁵ They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
 ²⁶ Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. ²⁷ In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.


We must look to Christ Jesus, who has the highest authority and understanding. We look not to the law receiver, but instead to the Law Giver, where He has defined the structure of a coupling designed by God.

Mark 10-

   ⁵ “It was because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote you this law,” Jesus replied. ⁶ “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’^[a] 7 ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,^[b] 8 and the two will become one flesh.’^[c]So they are no longer two, but one flesh. ⁹ Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”


Jesus has left no room for alternate configurations or permutations. We may not innovate or reinvent ourselves any other pairings.

He has established the institution of marriage and godly union and has spoken strictly against any deviation from this structure.

Now then, may we not adhere to God's definition of immorality and sin, but instead "decide" for ourselves?

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This episode has also led me to see again that our young Christians have almost no depth in Scripture, and in the ways of the Lord. This is extremely worrying, because they have displaced the authority of the revealed Word of God and believed in their own human reasoning and the standards of the world.

There needs to be a return to faithfulness and to become rooted in the Word of God.

We as His people must take on His standards and live out our faith the way He has shown us.

May we seek His face with all our hearts, mind and soul, using all of our strength.
May His Spirit claim us for Him and prepare us for His purposes.

Glory to Christ our Lord.


I do not wish to advertise my blog like I did previously in JC. Who may read this, may they prosper in the only thing that matters, following our God and Saviour.