More on Women as the Church in the Marriage Relationship

Okay ladies (and maybe gentlemen if you are reading this).  I told you earlier this year that I was going to study the woman's role in the marriage relationship on the basis of the representation of the church in the church and Christ parallel.  I pretty much found out that Christ loves us the way he does because he wants us to love him that same way. Therefore men and women should ultimately represent Christ to each other in many respects.  He focuses on men loving and women respecting most likely because women sometimes have a hard time respecting their men when they see things that they believe are contrary to what they should be seeing while men sometimes lack in the area of showing their emotions properly.  However, with those things aside we are all suppose to try to out love each other.  This means forgive like crazy, think about the other person all the time, try to do everything and anything for that other person to remind them that you are a gift from God to them.  Women: men should be saying "wow! God must really love me to send me a woman like that. She is more than I ever deserve."  Men: women should be saying "Wow!  God you love me like that? What can I do to thank you for giving me such a wonderful representation of your love?"  Christians:  non-believers should be saying "What is that?  Look at how they love each other!  That can't be real. How do they do that?  They are still married after all this time?!  I wish I had what they have."  That should be how marriages of God's people should go.  We must never forget what our lives are for.  Everything we have and everything we do should be to the glory of God.  
As I prepare myself for the marriage that God has for me I realize that if I am going to be a good wife I have to realize that I am not really serving my husband, but I am serving God.  It is the Jesus in my man that I fell in love with and it is the Jesus in that man that I will serve gratefully until I am rejoined with my eternal husband.  Husbands and Wives you are Jesus' representation of Him to your spouse until he comes back for his bride, the church.  You represent the love of God to this other person who desperately needs to know that God loves them forever.  I say desperately because people act unseemly when they forget how much God loves them.  They become destructive and weak willed.  I am not quoting any studies here, but I know what I have seen.  This is not how God wants us to live. Marriages were created to strengthen individuals for the work that God gave them.  This includes children.  Two  are better than one.  I thank God for opening up my understanding as I open up my heart to him.  I don't want to get married with misinformation, and I said that I would not get married until I knew the point.  I think I finally get it, and I hope that this has been helpful to you.  Women don't just stand by your man, but stand by your God!

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