Marriage: A Union of Completion and Growth

Today is another great day to talk about the plan that God has for the family. We've been talking this week about the wife's responsibilty the past few days and again we are going to look deeper at what it means to become one flesh as spelled out in Genesis 2:24. So often immediately after getting married, either the husband or the wife set out to change one another into who they want the other to be. This was never God's plan, as he created each of us to be just who we are. According to Psalm 139:14, the psalmist says that each one of us has been fearfully and wonderfully made, with unique personalities and traits. In a marriage, husbands and wives are to take those uniques traits and blend them into one beautiful relationship, without trying to make to other just like themselves. In this past weeks sermon, I read an article from Kendra Zickafoose, in which she shared how she thought "helping" her husband meant changing all of his ways to hers. She ended the article realizing that is wasn't the wives job to mold their husbands into what they wanted them to be, but to help them become the men that God wanted them to be. This was done through daily prayer for them, listening instead of talking and learning to love them more. This was good advice, and by applying God's word, produced much better results in her marriage.