Ephesians 5:32
I promise that tomorrow's blog will jump into Ch.6 and I will be on the right chapter again, but I couldn't leave without simply touching on this one verse that I have often omitted in my own reading of this passage.
This passage became significant to me about 3 or 4 years ago after some hard lessons early on in my marriage as to what a man's role really was. I have feasted on this passage repeatedly since then and it has shaped me in some important ways yet I realize that at many moments I somehow thought that I had read and understood it well enough to negate the mystery.
I realize that I am prone to find formula's or fixed rules that I think should guarantee marital success. I often am critical of the way people do things in there marriage and I realize that I have failed to believe that there is a mystery there. As I mentally allow the mystery back in I allow myself to revel in it. What brought Teena and I together is not something I can fully explain. How do we spend so much time together and yet continue to enjoy each other's company? These are mysteries that I can enjoy. Thanks be to God that we do not live a paint by the numbers life wherein the answers are readily before us! Thanks be to God that we can be amazed and enjoy wonderment in this lifetime and look forward to more to come in the next lifetime.
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The diversity of "successful marriages" speaks of the diversity of ways in which God allows us to connect to himself. Yes, there is only one way to the Father but the ways that people come to that one way are incredibly diverse and the ways in which people connect to God after coming through that door are also diverse. This tells me that just as there is no rigid formula for a successful marriage, there is no formula for our relationships with God.
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