GOD’S WORD MAKES IT CLEAR THAT THERE’S A CLEAR DIFFERENCE between heavenly love and the ordinary or natural human love.
What most Spouses have is the ordinary, natural human love which even the highly depraved sinners and miscreants have. The practice of Spouses who run on this kind of love is to work or contribute 50% to their marriage and stop. Then they wait for their Partner to bring in his own 50%. If he or she doesn’t, things will stand where they are until they do. Ask them if they love their Mate and they’ll answer, “Why? I sure do!” But that’s the kind of love Jesus spoke about in the Gospel of Luke:
“32 For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.
33 And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same.” (Luke 6:32-33)
In this portion of scripture, Jesus referred to the natural and ordinary love as “thankless” and something that even the base and the godless are capable of. When this is what your marriage runs on, it’s just a matter of time and the union will go sour.
The truth is that in Marriage, Spouses are God’s GIFT to each other. You’re not stationed in your Mate’s life to give 50%. No! All that you are and all that you have are God’s gifts to your Partner and you’re to release all to them. And as you understand this and release yourselves to one another, not only will your marriage be enriched but your individual lives will be boosted and beautified. For a clearer understanding, let’s look at a real life marriage in Nigeria that vividly illustrates and proves this truth. I heard about the couple during the sermon of one of one of Nigeria’s well respected Preachers.
A Christian female Lawyer received a revelation that she was to marry a brother in her local church who was a Carpenter. Not sure of what to do, she ran to her Pastor and told him. Not long after, the Carpenter had a similar revelation in which he saw that the Lawyer was to be his wife. Confused, he ran to the Pastor and told him. Long story short, they got married. Now, just imagine the intellectual and social gap between the two!
However, after they became man and wife, the woman one day suggested to her husband to let her teach him at home; so he’d write and pass the West African School Certificate Exam. With great excitement, her husband accepted. And so she homeschooled him and he passed his ‘O’ Level Exams and gained admission into the university! And gradually, he moved on and earned his Bachelor’s degree, his Master’s degree and his Doctorate!
When you compare the income of the two at the beginning of their union, it’s obvious that the woman earned so much more. Socially, she was higher. But she never practiced bringing 50% and waiting for her husband to bring his own 50%. She brought out what God gave her and made them available for her husband. She put her education at his disposal and the man was transformed from a Carpenter to a PhD holder.
Unlike most women who would taunt such a Carpenter husband and drum into his ears again and again how fortunate he was for them to have accepted to marry him, she did not do such. She recognized the fact that her man was intellectually capable but was disadvantaged in his growing up years and so never went beyond the Primary School. She chose to give him what he lost and he “recovered all the years that the locust, the caterpillar, the cankerworm and the palmer warm had eaten” ! That’s what waking in heavenly love can bring about in a Marriage.
Just yesterday, I asked a friend to send me his account details so I would post the money he’d loaned out to someone through me. When he sent the details, I wondered why it didn’t include his name. It was at the POS that I understood: the account belonged to himself and his wife! When the POS Man told me that, I silently said in my heart, “This man and his wife PRACTICE Marriage!” It’s one thing to be married and quiet another to PRACTICE IT. Most couples are yet to practice Marriage fully, properly and consistently. Lawyers practice Law, Doctors practice medicine. Married Couples should practice Marriage!
To successfully practice Marriage, you need to move beyond the ordinary and natural human love. Walk in heavenly love. Heavenly Love seeks the satisfaction and fulfillment of it’s Mate and personally makes sacrifices to achieve that end. It’s this kind of heart that makes a marriage grow, blossom, bloom, thrive and bear fruits ceaselessly.
Today, choose to walk in heavenly love as you live and relate with your Spouse; for it is more blessed to give than to receive!
🔥🔥🔥 FAITH DECREE:
🔥LET THE HUNGER TO WALK IN HEAVENLY LOVE BE RELEASED ON EVERY SPOUSE READING THIS DEVOTIONAL PIECE, IN JESUS’ MIGHTY NAME!⚡⚡⚡
🍷🍗 TAKE-HOME LESSON: CHOOSE TO WALK IN HEAVENLY LOVE AS YOU RELATE WITH YOUR SPOUSE TODAY!
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