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Day 2: Honor Marriage Because It Is A COVENANT

We see in the Old Testament God making several Covenants with a man of His choice or a people of His choice. God always initiated the Covenant with His promises. We see God as both a Covenant-making God & a Covenant-keeping God.

Marriage is also a Covenant. God expects the man & the woman who are entering into the Marriage Covenant to not just be Covenant makers but also Covenant keepers just like Him. In both ways, we honor marriage and the God of the Covenant Marriage.

Marriage Covenant can be represented as a triangle, with the man and the woman in the two base corners and God at the apex. The two lines on the sides can represent the Covenant relationship that the man & woman have with God – this relationship begins when they accept Jesus as their personal Savior. The baseline represents the Marriage Covenant they enter on their wedding day, with God, family & friends as witnesses. Therefore, the marriage union is first a spiritual union.

In Malachi 2:11, God calls marriage a sanctuary. Sanctuary means the dwelling place of God. When both husband & wife are believers, their marriage becomes the dwelling place of God. Many of us do not acknowledge or realize that God is present in our marriage union. Ecclesiastes 4:12 reads, ‘a threefold cord is not quickly broken.’ And the Holy Spirit is the strand that strengthens the union between the husband and wife.

Prayer: Father, we thank You for being part of our marriage. Help us to make our marriage Your dwelling place. Jesus, we enthrone You as the head of our home and seek Your guidance in all we do. In Jesus’ name. Amen.