
ONE OF THE UNDOING OF MANY MARRIAGES IS THE ABSENCE OF pure and genuine love. If God should expose to the whole world the real reason behind many marriages, very many Spouses will be embarrassed as what they claimed to be love for their Spouse is something else altogether.
The Bible talks of UNFEIGNED LOVE(1 Peter 1:22) and this means that there is FEIGNED LOVE. The word FEIGNED means: pretended and insincere. So FEIGNED LOVE means insincere, hypocritical and pretended love. Sadly this is the kind of love some Spouses have for their Mate.
We see pretended love in marriages where the wife is all over her husband with kisses and hugs and calling him several romantic names that range from “Sweetheart”, “Honey-Honey”, “My Forever” to “Sweet Man”, “My Koko Yama”, “My Mwa-Mwa-Mwa”(MMMM), “My Babe”, “My Romeo of Rome”(MRR) but when his dear, aging and frail Mother visits from the village to stay over for a week and get some treatment for her crushing waist pain, her face changes and she’s full of coldness and hostility towards the old woman.
In the night of that same day, she begins her Drama. She uses all the tricks, cunning and subterfuge she knows to subtly sway him into getting her drugs from the nearby Pharmacy to go back to the village and swallow and get well. “It’s not only in the town that people get well”, she tells her husband.
Our anchor scripture, presented in two translations, reveals the picture of TRUE AND GENUINE LOVE: it loves the Father and ALSO loves the Son or the offspring. Applied to Marriage it simply means that when a woman sincerely and truly loves her husband, she’ll equally love his Mother. And not only his mother but his Father as well as all his siblings.
To be frank, the devil has cunningly twisted the minds of very many wives, even prior to Marriage, to see their future Mother-in-law as an enemy they should not give a foothold in their home. And once married, very many have implemented this doctrine of devilsπππ to the letter and consequently souring the relationship between them and their husbands. Unfortunately, many of such wives don’t think far into the future. All they see is the immediate present: their well furnished home, their five posh cars, their fat Bank π¦ π¦ π¦ π¦ accounts. But life is much more complex than what you see today.
As I’m writing, I can vividly recall a day in 1997 when a pretty ladyπππ πβ walked into our Church on a week day at about 9:00 AM. I was in the Church hall while our Pastor and General Overseer was in his Office π ππ. As she walked in, she greeted me and asked about the Senior Pastor. I pointed to his Office door. After a short while, our Senior Pastor came to me and asked in whisper if I could give some money for us to help the woman. I gave what I could which the Pastor added to his own gift and gave to her and she left.
Sir/Ma, if you saw that beautiful lady that morning, nothing would make you imagine that she was already in the valley of financially emptiness.
It was after her departure that our Pastor shared with what she told her: she was a Widowπππ. Her husband was a successful legal Practitionerπ§βπΎπ©π©π§βπΎπ§ββ. But while he was alive, she cut off his family from him. And suddenly Death came calling: sooner than she could have ever imagined. Unfortunately, her husband hadn’t thought ahead to write A WILL. And so his family swooped on his wealth and took everything. They didn’t leave a Pin. She was suddenly thrown into great want. And I doubt if she had a secure profession or business to fall upon.
When you truly love your Spouse, it’s only natural for your affection for him to be so much it freely spills over to all those who are connected to him. A situation where a husband or wife “love” their Partner but HATE their relatives reveals fake love.
Thankfully, if by this devotional you’ve discovered that your love for your Spouse isn’t real and true, you can dump the fake love and switch to loving them with the genuine love that extends to their parents, siblings and to all other loved ones.
Upon their husband’s death, some women have been accused by his relatives of killing him all because when he was alive, she was so domineering in the home and there was a strained relationship between them and her because of her hostility and long face when ever they came visiting.
Spouses, be wise!
Love your Mate extravagantly and let that love overflow to his people.
π₯π₯π₯ FAITH DECREE:
π₯ LET THE EYES OF THE UNDERSTANDING OF EVERY READER OF TODAY’S DEVOTIONAL BE OPENED TO SEE HIS/HER IN-LAWS AS PEOPLE TO BE LOVED AND RESPECTED .
π·π TAKE-HOME LESSON: LOVE THE PARENTS AND SIBLINGS OF YOUR SPOUSE BECAUSE THAT WILL CONSOLIDATE AND SOLIDIFY YOUR MARRIAGE! IT WILL HELP YOU IN THE EVENT OF EARLY DEATH OF YOU OR YOUR SPOUSE!
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