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Finding A Christian Mate
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What attributes should you
look for in a Christian mate? Following is a handy checklist
of relevant scriptures that you should keep in mind as you search
for your Christian soulmate: For
Women: Characteristics
of a Christian Husband 1. He should
be willing to put your relationship before all others:
Genesis 2:24
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united
to (to cling, stick, stay close, cleave, keep close, stick to, stick
with, follow closely, join to, overtake, catch) his wife, and they
will become one flesh. 2. He should be a
good leader: Ephesians 5:23
For the husband is the head (metaphor, anything supreme, chief,
prominent
of persons, master lord: of a husband in relation to his wife
of Christ: the Lord of the husband and of the Church
of things: the corner stone) of the wife as Christ is the head of
the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.
3. He should love you as much as he loves
himself and be willing to give himself for you:
Ephesians 5
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and
gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the
washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself
as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish,
but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love
their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves
himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds
and cares for it, just as Christ does the church
For Men: Characteristics of a
Christian Wife 1. She should not be a
nag: Proverbs 21:9
Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a
quarrelsome (contentious or strife-causing) wife.
2. She should be industrious, hard-working, able to provide for her
family, wise and able to bring honor to you:
Proverbs 31 (excerpts) 12 She
brings him good, not harm,
all the days of her life. 15 She gets up
while it is still dark;
she provides food for her family
and portions for her servant girls. 16 She
considers a field and buys it;
out of her earnings she plants a vineyard.
21 When it snows, she has no fear for her household; for all
of them are clothed (to be fully clothed) in scarlet (Commentary:
scarlet--or, "purple," by reason of the dyes used, the best fabrics;
as a matter of taste also; the color suits cold. (Fausset, A. R.,
A.M. "Commentary on Proverbs 31". "Commentary Critical and
Explanatory
on the Whole Bible".)) 23 Her husband
is respected at the city gate,
where he takes his seat among the elders of the land.
25 She is clothed with strength and dignity;
she can laugh at the days to come.
26 She speaks with wisdom,
and faithful instruction is on her tongue.
3. She is Willing to Be Submissive
Ephesians 5:22-24
22 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23 For the husband
is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his
body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to
Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
(Commentary: From v. 22 to the end he speaks of the duties of husbands and
wives; and he speaks of these in a Christian manner, setting the
church as an example of the wife’s subjection, and Christ as an
example of love in husbands. I. The duty prescribed to wives is
submission to their husbands in the Lord (v. 22), which submission
includes the honouring and obeying of them, and that from a
principle of love to them. They must do this in compliance with
God’s authority, who has commanded it, which is doing it as unto the
Lord; or it may be understood by way of similitude and likeness, so
that the sense may be, "as, being devoted to God, you submit
yourselves unto him.’’ (From: Henry, Matthew. "Commentary on Ephesians 5".
"Matthew Henry Complete Commentary
on the Whole Bible". ))
For Men and Women:
You Must Be Sexually Attracted to Him/Her
1 Corinthians 7:3
The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and
likewise the wife to her husband.
1 Corinthians 7:4
The wife's body does not belong to her alone but also to her
husband. In the same way, the husband's body does not belong to him
alone but also to his wife.
Must He/She Be A Believer?
2 Corinthians 6
14 Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do
righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can
light have with darkness? However,
the Bible also speaks about an unbelieving husband or wife being
sanctified through marriage:
1 Corinthians 7
12 To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If any brother has a
wife who is not a believer and she is willing to live with him, he
must not divorce her. 13 And if a woman has a husband who is not a
believer and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce
him. 14For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his
wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her
believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as
it is, they are holy.
In the search to find your
Christian mate, pray, as in all things and ask God to help you to
find that person. But remember - it is all in God's timing and
not your own. Pray, be diligent and, in the meanwhile, seek to
fashion yourself after God's idea of a Christian husband or a
Christian wife. Your search might just end that much sooner!
Reader
Comments:
For the males - you should be working!!!!Adam was
given the job to look after Eden before Eve came on the scene.
JESUS was a carpenter, Paul a tentmaker. Get a job - GOD will
provide!!!! Christian brothers need to work to provide for their
families.
Christian brother - your wife is worth rubies - treat her
accordingly, with RESPECT.
BROTHERS, watch those sisters who hunt you down - 'If a man finds a
wife he finds a good thing' women - STOP HUNTING - it's pitiful. No
man respects anything or anyone he got too easily. But don't make it
too hard for them either!!! Smile.
blessings, bj
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