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MARRIAGE

Genesis 2:18-25

God in His goodness and mercy brought forth creation with a good thought. In all of His thoughts, there was no room for evil when He brought forth all of His creation. He confirmed His thoughts when He said in Jeremiah 29:11, ÒFor I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.Ó Do you remember that after each and every of GodÕs creation, God always take time to look at it and declared it good? Genesis 1:10, ÒAnd God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that it was good.Ó All of GodÕs creations are good and nothing is evil. He is a good God. He created man and woman for the good purpose of working together by establishing an institution of leaving and joining and He stated in Genesis 2:24, ÒTherefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.Ó The institution of leaving and joining is what is now called marriage. It was a command from God and not a suggestion when He said man shall leave and join. Everything that God created was good and He must have seen it to be good when He gave His command of leaving and joining. Have you left to join or you are in the process of joining? If you have left and joined or expecting to be joined, always remember that it is of God to leave and join. The condition to have a leave and join institution work effectively is to be living in His command without any violation. Do you desire a blossom and blessed leave and join institution? He commanded, ÒÉthey shall be one fleshÓ. If you can become one flesh in the institution of leave and join, you are set for great exploit beyond your imagination on this earth. Likewise, if you have entered the institution and have not become one flesh as He commanded, you are set for all kinds of trouble. If you are sincerely joined, you will be naked to each other and shame will not have its way. To be naked is to be transparent; that is to have nothing be kept secret between each other. Where there is transparency, there will be transformation and transformation is what makes the institution get better from moment to moment. Genesis 2:25, ÒAnd they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.Ó Marriage is the institution of leaving and joining. To have a good marriage is to live in every one of His commands for marriage. This entails leaving and joining indeed and in truth, being naked (transparent) and allowing transformation to terminate shame. God is good so ask Him for the grace to enable you in your leave and join institution.