Married and One-Flesh

Recently, the Lord reminded me that Christians who are married are as the Bible says  “one flesh” and no longer two. So we probably shouldn’t call married people “couples.” Their one-flesh unified relationship should be paraded before all the world to see.  My wife and I were one in mind, in spirit, in our identity as a unit, in our values, convictions, and of course, in our intimacy. When we got married, Kathy sacrificed her job as a teacher to follow me in marriage and make our move to a Dallas where I had accepted my new position with CBN. She took on my last name. Her agenda changed, and God honored her. Within two months after our move to Dallas God gave her a new teaching job that same fall semester! All through marriage we made sacrifices for one another to keep the bond of unity in Christ’s love. We communicated. We prayed together every day. We laid down our lives for the other as a living sacrifice.  The term “one flesh” means that just as our bodies are one whole entity and cannot be divided into pieces and still be a whole, so God intended it to be the same in our marital relationship. There are no longer two entities (two individuals), but now only one! And in that entity are joy and peace. And today I’m sharing our legacy that Kathy and I were ONE IN CHRIST for all 50 years of our marriage.

“May they be one as We are one.” ~~ John 17:22. (GW).

“This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife in such a way that the two become one person” ~~ Genesis 2:24 (TLB).