Some time ago while spending time with my family, m Aunt bought out a magazine she shares with us when she's finished reading the articles. It was the June 2008 Reflections for woman from Pentecostal Publishing that I picked up and it just so happened to have an article that I read again and again as I am now married. I will summarize the article but it's this chart that it provides that is so helpful!!
"By him all things consist" Colossians 1:17
The writer chose to delve into the respective biblical roles of husband/wives to describe God's plan for marriage as a covenant, one which parallels God's covenant with His bride, the church. See Eph. 5:25, II Cor. 11:2 and Re. 19:9 Thoughout the Bible we can see that God did relate to man with covenants . Each built upon the previous sort of like foundations... Each with privileges and obligations... When relating properly God blessed and the same when breaking a covenant.
By him all things exist... in marriage he is the glue that sets everyone in their place and firm at that- that is basically what the article was about. In his ten commandments we can see a relative role for those commandments in marriage which is what the writer was talking about when one parallels God's covenant with his bride the church. Well that also goes for husbands and wives as well...
Here is the table
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Sunday, January 16, 2011
It's Getting There? Are We There Yet?!
Here we are dawn of a new year! Happy NEW Year to one and all!
Last year (review)
For myself was NOT the business! I am humbled that I've been married one year so far pray for us that there will be many more! So we are called "newly weds" that's fine by me but is there ever a time (like seriously) when you are never a newly wed or do you even want it to come to that? Something to think about...
New Year (what's in store!?)
I don't want last year to carry over so... changes obviously need to be made and you know I've happy with my husband and our little life we have going on but there's more to life than some ordinary day in our ordinary lives. Jesus is the reason why we're here and well... I want to be and do right not wrong, I want to help not hurt and add not take away from all that belongs to Him. I've done enough of that in my lifetime and do not want to be hindered or hinder the blessings of he Lord Jesus! How do we start changing? Well I stopped my routine that I was blessed by so... I'll start again and try a little bit more and a little big harder that's a start don't you think? Some things I would like to accomplish are or pray to have accomplish are:
- my morning prayer walks I used to do it for about an hour to an hour and a half... when I got married behold I kept to it! When hard times hit I stopped... When really I probably should have prolonged it!!! Ah well you live and you learn right!
- a job to help my husband and myself - going back to school to finish isn't an option at the moment. I want to help my Manu.
- stop closing doors when things get hard. Inside run to open more doors (Jesus willing of course)!
- live healthy not lose weight just live healthy!
- save to go to Tonga! I need my dad I really do!!!! In Jesus Name
Anyway that's just a few things a way to have something is plot it out! A step at a time if not nothing will come about! Ok I did my first design of the year and it's now my header for our blog. I haven't had the desire to design but here we go that's another one. I will start designing for personal products.
I don't have much to share at the moment soooo I'll be back =)
Ofa atu!
Last year (review)
For myself was NOT the business! I am humbled that I've been married one year so far pray for us that there will be many more! So we are called "newly weds" that's fine by me but is there ever a time (like seriously) when you are never a newly wed or do you even want it to come to that? Something to think about...
New Year (what's in store!?)
I don't want last year to carry over so... changes obviously need to be made and you know I've happy with my husband and our little life we have going on but there's more to life than some ordinary day in our ordinary lives. Jesus is the reason why we're here and well... I want to be and do right not wrong, I want to help not hurt and add not take away from all that belongs to Him. I've done enough of that in my lifetime and do not want to be hindered or hinder the blessings of he Lord Jesus! How do we start changing? Well I stopped my routine that I was blessed by so... I'll start again and try a little bit more and a little big harder that's a start don't you think? Some things I would like to accomplish are or pray to have accomplish are:
- my morning prayer walks I used to do it for about an hour to an hour and a half... when I got married behold I kept to it! When hard times hit I stopped... When really I probably should have prolonged it!!! Ah well you live and you learn right!
- a job to help my husband and myself - going back to school to finish isn't an option at the moment. I want to help my Manu.
- stop closing doors when things get hard. Inside run to open more doors (Jesus willing of course)!
- live healthy not lose weight just live healthy!
- save to go to Tonga! I need my dad I really do!!!! In Jesus Name
Anyway that's just a few things a way to have something is plot it out! A step at a time if not nothing will come about! Ok I did my first design of the year and it's now my header for our blog. I haven't had the desire to design but here we go that's another one. I will start designing for personal products.
I don't have much to share at the moment soooo I'll be back =)
Ofa atu!
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