WILL YOU MARRY ME?

WILL YOU MARRY ME?

This is the big question that so many ladies long to hear from their spouses. It is the big question that makes even the mighty men to shake like reeds. Fear of the unknown makes even the mightiest men to tremble and shake.

Yet, the one question that everyone needs to answer is this......WILL YOU MARRY ME?

The institution of marriage was created by GOD in the garden of Eden.

Genesis 2:24 "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall become one flesh." (See also Matthew 19:5-6 Mark 10:7-8 and 1 Corinthians 6:16)

Marriage is an act of recreation where 2 individuals are fused and joined together to become one. They become so completely one that according to Matthew 19:5-6, they are no longer 2 but one. This denotes perfect unity.

As I study the Word of GOD, I realize that earthly marriage is just but a type of the spiritual marriage. Just as a man is united with his wife, and they become one, CHRIST seeks to be perfectly united with the church, His people, that they become completely one.

In John 7:121 CHRIST makes a prayer as follows "That they may all be one; just as thou Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us; that the world may realize that thou hast sent me."

In verse 22, illustrating the perfect oneness,he says " I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one, and that the whole world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me."

This is the degree of unity that CHRIST sought for.

Take note that in the above verses, in John, perfect oneness is needed for the world to believe in the gospel ( from the phrase "that the world may realize that thou hast sent me"). Perfect oneness in CHRIST is what is lacking, otherwise the gospel would be done already and CHRIST would have come back.

.....................HAS THIS KIND OF ONENESS EVER EXISTED BEFORE?..............

In Genesis 11 we realize that such a oneness ever existed, albeit in a wrong direction.

Genesis 11:6 " And the LORD said, Behold the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do, and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do."

Here GOD admits the perfect oneness that existed in the builders of the tower of Babel, and because of such a oneness, nothing would be restrained from them. Meaning they would achieve whatsoever they sought to achieve.

If only Christians tapped to this GOD given potential of oneness with CHRIST, the work would be done.

......................MARRIAGE TO CHRIST........................

In 2 Corinthians 11:2 Paul says " For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy; for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to CHRIST."

The BIBLE seeks to present us to CHRIST as chaste virgins, in short, the BIBLE seeks that we get married to CHRIST.

Just as by an earthly marriage we become one in the flesh, by marriage to CHRIST we become one spirit. That's why 1 Corinthians 6:17 says "But he that is joined to the LORD is one spirit"

.................BEARING FRUITS.....................

Earthly marriage bears fruit in terms of Children. Marriage to CHRIST bears fruit too, called the fruit of the SPIRIT (Galatians 5:22). Marriage to CHRIST bears the fruit of the spirit because from the above 1 Corinthians 6:17, we become one spirit.

Oneness in CHRIST is a condition for bearing much fruit. See CHRIST's words hereunder:

John 15:5 " I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing."

..................ONE MIND..........

Paul counsels in Philippians 2:2 that we have one mind. This is only possible if we all have the mind of CHRIST (verse 5)

...............THE DIVINE PROPOSAL.....

Often when a man asks a woman to marry her, he goes down on one knee and asks. CHRIST did not go down on one knee. He went to the cross.

Through the cross, CHRIST asks every human being that fundamental question........

WILL YOU MARRY ME?