13, "And a woman who has a husband that is unbelieving, if willing to live with her, let her not divorce him 14, For the unbelieving husbend is santified through the believing wife."
Onother one is:
1 Corinth 10:18-21
18,"....Are not those who eat of the sacrifice partakers of the altar? 19, What am I saying then? That an idol is anything? Or what is offered to idols is anything? 20, Rather that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to demonds and not to God. And I do not want you to have fellowship with demonds 21, You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demonds; you cannot partake of the Lords table and of the demonds."
Please share how possible is it for a wife to keep an unsaved husband without being won over to evil through submission,
1 Cor 10: 30 For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks? 31Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. 32Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God: 33Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
Beloved, You see the act of submission begins with communication. When a wife humbly comes and communicates to her husband concerning her heart and the impact a act will have upon her to her husband, if he truly loves his wife he will listen.
He act of respect to her husnad showing him transparency over her emotion and her desire to follow God will be an impact to her husband.
Her expressing her desire for his leadership in the things of faith but also giving respect to him even though he is not able to lead in the things of faith.
A wife exampling humility to her unbelieving husband is the very path that leads to salvation. It is only in humility do we come to God.
The act of submission is not blindly following a mans selfish desires. In a christian marriage the act of submission is before Christ first, right?
A believing spouse when they fulfill the role they are called by God can be the very vessle to lead the unbelieveing spouse to Christ through humility. They are set apart due to the believing spouse and the oneness that God creates between two individuals.
Does God only join believers together in marriage? No He does not. When we vow and consumate a marriage we are joined by God.
The relationship between Christ and the Church is the example of a Godly relationship. Spouses even unbelieving ones desire good marriages also, right?
But in their pride they often do not know How to live such good marriages out, right?
The example of a godly woman or man in a marriage with a unbelieving spouse should be the expression of Gods love toward the unbeliever, right?
By their expression of this love they are partakers of the blessings of Christ, right? Because they have it lived out intimatly before their very eyes, right?
So the act of submission begins with verbal communication. The act of submission shows Christ. Christ leads unbelievers to salvation.
We forget that marriage is about unity. How is it unity for a husband to order a wife around and cause her hurt in desiring her to participate in activities that cause her pain?
Or how is it unity for a wife to resist her husband by being silent?
Is not the silent treatment the thing that women use to punish their husbands?
I don't know, wasn't really thinking along those lines, though if I should try to give few in answering you I think its:
1, Communication & agreement.
There's such power in agreement & speaking the same language.
It took God's trinity to come together as one in speaking the same language. In He's idea of creating He keeps saying "Let us..."
This alone shows that He was in agreement with someone after communication has been done.
2, Practical works.
If God only believed that He can create a human being out of dust without working with He's hands,
Human beings' existance would have been an idea in He's mind till this day, BUT guess what...? He had to work with He's own hands to create Adam. This alone says a lot about God's expectations about our fruit of labout, considering that He could have just spoken him forth like everything else that He spoke to existance.
This one goes back to my concern about fellows who wanna be worked for, they only wanna preach.
Though the working department is a little broader than physical works. Somethings are beyond our physical ability, they rather are contintious work that only the Holly Spirit can help in achieving set goals. For example:
Forgiving the next part daily. It may not be easy through human strength considering you guys are in a life time commitment.(a human will get tired as time passes by)
This needs time, and through the Holly Spirit's help only can it be achieved.
This is where a room for continuous new beginings takes place. (which is onother subject on its own)
3, A question of nekedness and acceptance (this one is very crucial)
Adam & Eve were meant to be naked.
Them creating clothes for them selves was out of same after realizing that they were naked. I believe that I should be able to bring forth my nakedness to my husband without shame & fear of rejection. Same goes for him. Not only refering to the physical part when rendering affection due to one onother,
I should be able to tell him my worst flops & be transparent with asurance of acceptance afterwards. This one is very tough, hense couples would rather confide to therapist without the other part knowing.
I believe that one of God's standards' of my marriege is being rather clothed with a gament of righteous services to my husband & family. Think about it dear,
Was Jesus refering to physical clothes when chasing out that fellow from the parable of the wedding feast when He asked him why wasn't he dressed up for the occasion?
These are the very few standards that I can think of right now. God could be having greater standards than I can ever think of in my little mind.
Though commitment is my worst fear right now friend, living in an empty lonely house seem to serve me fine for now, though I find myself googling dating sites for company, hense I met you dear one.
Suppose there's so much to work on before I can even think of dating hey...
And yes my darling friendship for me to behold the fruit of your effort is a blessing indeed. A sence of humbleness always fellows through when I interact with you.
When one seeks to understand more about marriege, one gets a clearer revelation of how our relationship as the bride (we church) should be with Christ.
Keep going back to your post about the light & darkness, must have been reading for the 5th time now.
You've answered other questions that I wasn't even gonna ask in the forum, personal questions that I would have been short of words in expressing them even to God,
Thank God for the Holly Spirit that knows what we wanna say before we even release a single word from our mouth.
I'm greatful of your imput on my posts,
When at times you seem a little erelevent,
Believe me that's when you making perfect sense,
Touching other issues that were not even brought forth for discussion here in the forum.
May God bless you friendship and keep using you as He's precious vessel.
