There is something so very pure, simple and beautiful about Gensis 24:67. Isaac saw Rebekah for the first time and the bible says he: “took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her” (KJV).

God’s love is an unconditional love; a love based in faith, not on anything the other does or does not do for us (1 Cor 13:1-13). God’s love never fails (1 Cor 13:8) and we are commanded to love with the God kind of love (John 13:34.

Marriage was God’s idea (Gen 2:24) and to be successful it must be done God’s way. In Ephesians 5:21 married couples are told to submit: “one to another in the fear of God”. This means to listen, communicate, submit, defer and agree in unselfish love. Husbands are to love their wives as Jesus loved the church and gave himself for her (Eph 5:25). Husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies (Eph 5:28).

In an environment of harmony, the sacrificial love of her husband and mutual submission, the wife is to submit to her husband as head of the home (Eph 5:22).

God knew, that in all facets of life, we needed order and authority for his peace and fullness to be experienced. A marriage based on God’s love and with God at the center is a pure, beautiful, simple and successful thing (Eccl 4:12). 

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