The challenges in marriage are often numerous, every
marriage has its fair share of those challenging moments when the couples
disagree over a point or two. It’s easy to define a family by the many
conflicts it goes through however when there is so much agreement between
couples in marriage, the devil still seizes on that united stance to his
advantage.
If your marriage isn’t going through hitches like those of
your neighbors, congratulations you’ve passed the first test of marriage. The
second test is what your seamless hitch free marriage can do when not under the
covering and leading of the Holy Spirit.
Many marriages have broken apart not because the couples had
personal problems they couldn’t agree on but they agreed together to do what
displeased God.
It began from the first couple Adam and Eve. The love
between Adam and Eve was strong; there seemed nothing that could have brought
them apart. The devil knew so he used the love between them to sow a negative
seed in the earth. The devil knew Adam trusted Eve to never reconsider anything
she gave him. Adam believed Eve was perfect because God gave her to him. The
devil tempted Eve to eat the forbidden fruit and she ate and gave her husband
too. The result is what we are suffering today, sin.
Thank God He revealed your spouse to you. You are lucky that
he is a gentle man or she is the perfect wife. You agree in everything you do
and that’s how marriage should be but the question you should answer is “what
do you agree about in your marriage?”
Adam and Eve agreed to eat the fruit God told them not to
eat. They conspired with themselves to disobey God and He was displeased with
them and their generation.
The family of Ananias and Saphira were another set of
couples. They were a great match, zealous for God and had even given themselves
to follow the doctrines of the disciples of Jesus.
This couple decided to sell their land for the furtherance
of the gospel. It was a great decision not common even for today’s couples.
They had made a promise to the apostles that they would give all the proceeds
of the land to push the mission work in the early church. This was a great
decision and they were applauded for it.
Subsequently however, the couple saw the proceeds of the
land as too much to hand over to God. They agreed to keep some for their
personal use and agreed to lie to the apostle that all they were giving was all
the proceeds of the land.
These couple wasn’t the quarreling type. They are just like
the perfect easy going Christian couples today who will make a vow in church to
give some money or some materials but later turn their backs in their rooms
because of what they claim would be their own benefits.
Perhaps you’ve agreed with your spouse to lie against a
relative, brother, friend, acquaintance or neighbor. Everyone thinks you are a
Christian but when you should prove your Christian confession, you lose it by a
simple lie. That’s conspiracy.
Did this couple go free? No! They met the judgment of God.
They were slain by the spirit of God and that was the end of their marriage.
God is not happy when we allow the devil steal into our
marriages to make us conspire against Him or against our fellow man. Much havoc
wrecked in families is the results of agreements of couples in the family. The
husband trust what the wife says too much to carry out an action that he should
not have carried out with his senses.
Children have been sent away from home, families have been
divided over bedroom agreement. Siblings no longer see because of what they
agreed with their spouses in search of personal interests.
If you must have a wholesome marriage, it must be devoid of
demonic or Satan guided actions. Don’t agree with your spouse against God. It
will be detrimental to you. Hell is too hot to have you inside it.
Agree with your spouse to serve God with all your heart and
all your resources. God doesn’t want anything from you, but if you decide to
give him, give with your whole heart. He certainly will reward you.
Be at peace with everyone around you. Agree with your spouse
to follow peace with all men and holiness without which no man shall see the
Lord.
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