Get Back to The Plan!

Monday, May 30th, 2011

Today's Passage: Genesis 2: 18-25
Memory Verse: Genesis 2:18

God is so awesome. Everything He designed, He did with a definite plan and purpose. The uniting of man and woman is no different. In reading this passage, I found that God's original design for marriage was to provide one who corresponded to him. When I looked up that word, I found other words like helpmate, companion, compatible, agree, check, fit, marry, match up to, have accord, adhere, align, answer, bear out, befit, conform to, correlate to, harmonize, suit, support, and meet.

What an attractive list of words! But upon considering how detailed and in-depth God was in designing this u ity between male and female, I also asked an obvious question. Why are a majority of marriages the exact opposite of God's plan? The answer is found in the very words themselves.

First and foremost, God's design was never for man to be alone. He provided a way for woman to supply the answer to every need inside of him. However, the entire attitude of women entering a relationship which would ultimately result in a marriage is different from God's plan. The society (again, the devil's playground) pushes independent thinking among women as the new age woman's character. Rather than conforming ourselves to God's image of who we are, we bought into the idea that we had to do everything on our own.

So while we were busy playing into those foreign ideas, the enemy was inserting resentment, indifference, self-rationalization and selfishness into our attitudes towards our husbands. And wherever these emotions are, bitterness is not far behind. Pretty soon, the unity and harmony originally intended is gone. How do we begin to get it back? We get back under the covering of God and follow His ways with no reservations.

Prayer: Father, I thank You for always having a plan to fix what the enemy destroyed. In order to be victorious, I must be obedient to Your Perfect will in my marriage. Help me make that commitment at any cost. In Jesus' Name, Amen.