What issues do you struggle with in your marriage? Do you find it difficult to show love when you feel your needs aren’t being met? Have you held on to resentment for so long that it seems impossible to forgive? Do you desire God’s blessing and extra encouragement for the hard days?
Mark 10-8 says, “The two will become one
flesh, so they are no longer two, but one.”
One of the elements of God’s rule is his
heart for oneness, also known as unity.
Unity can be defined in its simplest of
terms as oneness of purpose. It’s working
together and harmony toward a shared
vision and goal. So let’s say a prayer
together about our unity in marriage.
Dear Lord, unity and oneness in our marriage
is about so much more than just agreeing
on things. Your word tells us that our
unity actually reflects You to others.
Our disunity, on the other hand, reveals
how far we are from You in our spiritual
lives and character. Help me to keep a
mindset of unity that is tied to the
truth in your word, rather than view our
decisions and disagreements as
competitions of thoughts and will.
Lord, Jesus describes the purpose of unity when He
said, “I in them and You in Me, that they
may be perfected in unity so that the
world may know that You sent me and love
them even as You have loved me.” Unity is
our way of sharing and validating Your
love, not only for Christ and that You
sent Him, but also for all of us. In Jesus,
we have redemption of our sins, but this
testimony is mangled and marred when we live
in the most intimate relationship You
have created on earth, that is of
marriage, in disunity. Jesus said we are
to be perfected in unity.
That being so, we are far from perfected
when we crawl or hold strong to our own
desires or decisions with no regard for
our mate. Help me, help us, to be perfected
spiritually through the sanctifying process of unity in our marriage. In Christ’s name, amen.