Heavenly Marriage

Bible References on Marriage

Ephesians:5.22-33

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the Church: and he is the savior of the body. Therefore, as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be unto their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the church, and gave himself for it; that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that he might present to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: for we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

Marriage is about preserving divine order in the closest relationship and most sacred organization of God: the family. Husbands are high priests in marriage, channeling the love of God to the wife, and sacrificing for her sins, satisfaction of her needs, and completion of her glory. As God is to the man, the husband is to the wife . . . a parallel Spirit with size differences. He is the greater, but she receives greater. Mothers nurture the early child, but fathers and husbands nurture wives, mothers, and children, and more. He tends to the house, the yard, and, through his stewardship work, the church and world at large. He is a caregiver after the manner of God, himself. A man is incomplete and unsatisfied if his opportunities for nurture are diminished.

It is well for the wife to exercise the many occasions to ask for the husband’s help. Her requests may be thought of as prayer petitions he greatly desires to fulfill. It is head intercourse through which Spiritual bonding flourishes. As the pattern of fulfilled requests grows, reflective wives feel more loved, better loved. A good wife learns how to pray, that is, how to petition the husband, so he can, indeed, fulfill her request every time (ask and ye shall receive). Wives not growing too expensive to maintain (lavish clothes, jewelry, hairdos) receive lifetime care above what a good man does for himself or the children. With these extraordinary asking privileges, a wife should be careful not to feign helplessness to get more attention. The Proverbs 31 woman is a paragon of virtuous behavior, fully authentic in her thinking, speaking, doing, and feelings. God loves right asking, and will meet every such petition. So will the husband.

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