FOR IF ONE OF THEM FALLS, THE OTHER WILL RAISE HIS COMPANION; BUT WOE TO THE ONE WHO FALLS WHEN THER

The greatest test of Fire in our marriages is infidelity, I will not focus on talking about what it is and how devastating it can become to many; we know very well that this opportunity or test devastates everything around us to the point of giving up one of the promises most longed for and loved by every human being, giving and having God as a witness.

We long to get to the altar to say "Yes" to a series of promises that sound very nice; but that at the end of the day when we go through an attack this kill’s us and we then prefer to flee before fighting. I leave it to your imagination, everything that this ordeal entails.

We need to take into account the sacrifice that our redeemer made for each one of us. You can just say No and give up or you can take up the weapons that are not physical and just put up the fight so that our enemy doesn't get away with it.

This Easter, ask God to show you his sacrifice on the cross and how much the person who fell is worth carrying forward and as his word says in Ecclesiastes 4:10 There are those who fall and do not have who will lift them up! So ask God to fill you with his strength and to help you fight the battle for your home, in this time of resurrection ask the Holy Spirit, the POWER that raised Jesus from the dead to be raised, restored and resurrected your home in this beautiful time.

We must bear in mind that marriage is more than love for one another. It’s much more. The meaning of marriage is the representation of the love faithful to the covenant between Christ and his people. This faithful covenant love reached its climax in Christ's death for his church, his bride. That death is the supreme expression of grace, which in turn is the supreme expression of God's glory, which has infinite value. Therefore, when Paul says that our grand finale is to the praise of the glorious grace of God. (EF 1: 6 NIV) immeasurably elevates marriage because here God shows, exceptionally, the summit of his glory, the glory of his grace: Christ loved the church He gave his life for her ”Eph 5: 25.

You wonder what a strange way to look at marriage; but this is what the word of God tells us.

“If you want to be my disciple, you must hate others - your father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters - yes, even your own life. Otherwise, you cannot be my disciple ”(Luke 14:26)

“I assure you that everyone who has left a house or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God will receive much more in this life and will have eternal life in the world to come" (Luke 18: 29-30)

Let's consider then that marriage is a great gift from God according to these verses, but let's not forget that we are in a fallen world. Sin abounds. obedience costs. Suffering is to be expected and the enemies will be the members of our own houses (Mt 10:36).

So marriage passes through astonishing heights and also through swamps with suffocating fumes. However, it does many sweeter things, and with it comes bitter providences.

So I join Dietrich Bonhoeffer in saying:

"Accept each other ... to the glory of God" that's God's word for his marriage. -Thank him for it; thank him for guiding you so far; ask him to establish his kingdom in your home so that the will be done as it is in heaven; likewise in his home, to affirm it, to restore it, to heal and sanctify it, and above all to preserve it. So that your marriage is “to the praise of his glory”. Amen

Give importance to your marriage, ask the Father to reveal its meaning to you and do not join the human vision where the perspective of marriage type "take it or leave it", "if it does not make me happy, then I get another or another" so limited and informal that the vision of the Father seems ridiculous to most people.

Marriage is in the mind of Christ. Today. Jesus would probably tell us the same thing that he said in his time when he finished revealing the mystery to us: “Not everyone can accept this word… Only those who receive help from God… Whoever can accept it” (Mt 19: 11-12 )

Perhaps it is our own sin, selfishness, and cultural bondage that makes it nearly impossible for us to grasp the wonder of God's purpose for marriage.

The greatness and glory of marriage beyond our ability to think or feel are divine revelation, enlightenment, and the mindful work of the Holy Spirit. The world cannot know what marriage is without learning it from God. The natural man does not have the ability to see, receive, or feel the wonder of marriage as God has designed it.

Marriage is more than infatuation