MARITAL WISDOM – LIVING JOYFULLY – COMES WITH A PRICE

MARITAL WISDOM – LIVING JOYFULLY – COMES WITH A PRICE: THE PRINCIPLE OF RESPONSIBILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY! 

“Live JOYFULLY with the wife whom you love all the days of your vain life which He has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity; for that is your portion in life, and in the labor which you perform under the sun. 10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going” Ecclesiastes 9:9-10. 

It’s gracious to know that it’s the human HANDS that builds the HOUSE, while the human HEARTS [spirit being] that builds the HOME. Think about it for a moment. Then it means, if you want to live joyfully with your best friend and wife, deal and dwell with her through scriptural knowledge in order to have an EFFECTUAL and UNHINDERED prayers. 

You can’t achieve scriptural wholeness from the creator of marriage with your self-made ideal or societal norms that’s set as your standards that may seems good and pleasant to the human ideal but it’s not Scripturally oriented after the creator God of marriage. It’s only God, who alone creates, and can assure and ensure marriage and marital bliss; and only Him can give the needed enabling for any godly marital relationship to thrive, for He oversees and keeps the marriage alive in His grace in Christ Jesus. Amen. 

“Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them ACCORDING TO KNOWLEDGE, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your PRAYERS BE NOT HINDERED . . . 9 not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise BLESSING; KNOWING that ye are thereunto CALLED, that ye should INHERIT A BLESSING” 1 Peter 3:7, 9. 

In the scripture above of 1 Peter 3:7, husbands are enjoined to dwell with their wives through KNOWLEDGE in order to have UNHINDERED PRAYERS, more so, to avoid and escape the infightings that’s in 1 Peter 3:9 and then INHERIT the MARITAL BLESSING. The question for your wisdom nuggets thought is – Do you as a husband, want a BLESSED marital wellbeing and UNHINDERED PRAYERS in fellowship and relationship with Father God in Christ Jesus? What scriptural KNOWLEDGE do you have and have explored to give you the daily enabling to dwell and deal with your wife? And have you been applying to your marital life the scriptural knowledge in your dealings in order to dwell with your wife to earn the BLESSEDNESS and UNHINDERED PRAYERS?  

And you the wife, the scripture says a wise woman build up her home by wisdom, while the foolish destroy it with her hands. And wisdom is the application of knowledge. So, how much scriptural knowledge do you have to enable you build your family as the Proverbial woman of Proverbs 31:10-31. You can’t just have a joyful relationship from the blue sky into your home.  

“The WISE woman builds her house [on a foundation of godly precepts, and her household thrives], But the FOOLISH one [who lacks spiritual insight] tears it down with her own hands [by ignoring godly principles]” Proverbs 14:1/Amplified. 

Love may have a feeling, love in itself is not a feeling. Hence I say, we may marry by love, but to build our Marital relationships, it’s by wisdom. And wisdom is the application of knowledge. The wisdom that’s Scripturally rooted in the word of God for you in context that’s particular to your marriage irrespective. Hence you need to own it to take the plight of responsibility and accountability to have a joyful relationship to pursue wisdom – knowledge and understanding of your marital life. 

SELAH-PAUSE AND THINK. 

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT: 

“Live JOYFULLY with the wife whom you love all the days of your vain life which He has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity; for that is your portion in life, and in the labor which you perform under the sun. 10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going” Ecclesiastes 9:9-10. 

“. . . 6 even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement. 7 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered. 8 Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: 9 not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing. 10 For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: 11 let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it. 12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil” 1 Peter 3:1-12. 

“Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. 22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. 24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it . . .” Ephesians 5:21-31. 

REV. CHUKIE MORSI