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  • Hope deferred, Desire fulfilled

    Hope deferred, Desire fulfilled

    Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
    but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life. Proverbs 13:12

    And so it has been, since twice rejected by the wife of my vows. It is not right in the LORD.

    Proverbs 30:

    The man declares, I am weary, O God;
    I am weary, O God, and worn out.
    2 Surely I am too stupid to be a man.
    I have not the understanding of a man.
    3 I have not learned wisdom,
    nor have I knowledge of the Holy One.

    ‘God is with me. God is with me; yet the son is devoured’

    Do these weary, worn words of Proverbs 30 not point to Christ? Yet even I am devoured by my sin on His Cross, God’s own compassion for me.

    Who will have such compassion on the weary and worn? Surly the church is too busy to comfort a man of no understanding. Surly the compassion and mercy of Christ hide behind proud deeds of service in His Name, worship to fill one’s own heart.

    7 Two things I ask of you;
    deny them not to me before I die:
    8 Remove far from me falsehood and lying;
    give me neither poverty nor riches;
    feed me with the food that is needful for me,
    9 lest I be full and deny you
    and say, “Who is the Lord?”
    or lest I be poor and steal
    and profane the name of my God.

    traditional marriage vows It is the lie of the beloved,

    which makes the heart of the lover sick

    with hopelessness and mistrust

    of hidden unfaithfulness.

    1 John 1:5-6 This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

    Colossians 3:9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices.

    Is the husband not head of the wife? Is it right in the Lord that she should lie to him, who is lord over her body and one with her in spirit? Marriage, the joining of two souls alone, is a great mystery! In the unfathomable mystery of this same deep intimacy of relationship, we in Christ are also joined with Him.

    The Bridegroom will return for His Bride, His Church;

    Desire fulfilled by the Bridegroom of eternal life.

     Proverbs 30: 

    32 If you have been foolish, exalting yourself,
    or if you have been devising evil,
    put your hand on your mouth.
    33 For pressing milk produces curds,
    pressing the nose produces blood,
    and pressing anger produces strife.

    Would you be a wise woman, a bride worthy of the love of your beloved?

    The Woman Who Fears the Lord

    Proverbs 31

    10 An excellent wife who can find?
        She is far more precious than jewels.
    11 The heart of her husband trusts in her,
        and he will have no lack of gain.
    12 She does him good, and not harm,
        all the days of her life.

     

     

  • A Temporary Throne – 26

    A Temporary Throne – 26

    CHAPTER 26

    Genesis 2:24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

     

    YOU KNOW THIS. YOU KNOW YOUR WIFE. ROGER, YOU ARE JOINED TO YOUR WIFE.

    (THE LORD spoke her name to me, which I am not to speak to you.)

    I HAVE JOINED YOU INTO ONE FLESH. NO MAN OR NO WOMAN MAY SEPARATE WHAT I HAVE JOINED BY THE FLESH OF A MAN TO THE FLESH OF A WOMAN.

    ALL CHILDREN BORN OF THE SEED OF MAN ARE THE FRUIT OF MY CREATION INTO THE WOMB OF MY CREATED.

    “LORD, from before I was born, you knew me in my mother’s womb.” (Jeremiah 1:5)

    THEREFORE, A MAN MUST NOT BE JOINED TO ANOTHER WOMAN OR A WOMAN TO ANOTHER MAN; FOR IN THE FLESH, I HAVE JOINED THEM. I AM THE LORD.

    “LORD, though I am joined to my wife, it is more the desire of my heart that aches in brokenness that pierces my spirit.

    ROGER, I WILL SHOW YOU THE HEART OF MARRIAGE; FOR YOU HAVE PRAYED FOR YOUR MARRIAGE FROM YOUR HEART.

    YOUR HEART DESIRES TO KNOW THE HEART OF MY COVENANT FOR MARRIAGE. IT IS NOT GOOD THAT MAN SHOULD BE ALONE.

     

    WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE MARRIAGE OF MY SERVANT, ABRAHAM, ROGER?

    To be continued…

    A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,

    © Copyright 2013, All Rights Reserved by the author.

  • Covenant and Truth of Christian Marriage

    Covenant and Truth of Christian Marriage

    Marriage: It should be so simple. Boy meets girl. Boy marries girl. Husband and wife make a promise “until death do us part.” They make a covenant, with witnesses. Confirm it publicly in a ceremony officiated by someone in authority. They speak vows of love (for better, for worse, etc.). They sign a covenant of marriage. They are pronounced husband and wife and go on their way to much celebration of this permanent union of love.

    Simple and so significant.

    “And they live happily ever after,” so the romantic story of love and marriage goes.

    As Christians committed to one another (as is our focus here), the covenant and truth and the love of God, the love of all other Christians, and their pledged love for each other should be reason enough for them to celebrate anniversary after anniversary as one – anniversary after anniversary as one joined as one to Christ Jesus, our Lord.

    … And they live eternally ever after…

    So it should be…

    Yet even Christian husbands and Christian wives struggle with the truths of marriage and the consequences of sin and divorce, just like anyone else.

    So rather than glossing over the Biblical model for marriage (which we will address) and pretending that Christian marriages have it all “for better and for even better” (an unrealistic fairy tale of some ideal Christian preaching), we will address the history of marriage through both the Old Testament and the New and look at some realities in the marriages of Christians through the light of scripture.

    Once upon a time, we could address the issues of marriage without having to define it; but in these post-Christian times it is best that we narrow our focus sharply on the Biblical.

    Marriage: in the Hebrew, multiple uses: – `ownah –  halal – yabam – ba`al – ‘iysh (husband) – ‘ishshah  (wife) 

    I am least of those to define these. There may be more, but study these and their several, related scriptures and you will begin to have an Old Testament understanding of marriage. (Please add your Comment to our site of any insight the Lord gives to you.)

    Marriage: in the Greek, the language of the New Testament:  gameō – and the root word: gamos.

    Again, look at the scriptures and context, which we will examine in more detail next week.

    Hebrews 13:4 

    Let marriage be held in honor among all,

    and let the marriage bed be undefiled,

    for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

    Christian Marriage: To be continued…