Accepting God’s Priorities for our Lives
Since God thinks so highly of our marriage, and since all other joys are to flow from that relationship—it must be our highest earthly priority!
Priorities are putting choices we have into an order of importance. As we serve God through life, if we are married, God says we must accept the priority of a Christlike marriage.
The second biggest choice in life, and the one that impacts everything else after salvation is your marriage. So what we need to consider is how to obey the Lord and serve Him by making your marriage your primary ministry priority.
A Christlike marriage as a reflection of Christ’s love was the primary ministry each one of us husbands publicly affirmed before God and many of our closest friends and family, at our wedding.
We have many responsibilities including our job, parenting and educating our children, and serving in Christ’s church through missions, Sunday school, or youth work, or evangelism. All of these are important to God, but only our marriage is given the place of greatest priority as the Lord declares that we are to care for our wife with as single a focus and as clear a love as Jesus showers upon us His church. That is our first calling.
If we want to fully serve the Lord then we shouldn’t get married is what Paul said. In other words, certain people (like Jeremiah and the 144,000) and certain times (like the persecutions of the early church) are times that marriage may not be best.
1 Corinthians 7:32-33 But I want you to be without care. He who is unmarried cares for the things of the Lord—how he may please the Lord. 33 But he who is married cares about the things of the world—how he may please his wife.
But for most of history and for most of God’s servants – their marriage is to be their PRIMARY MINISTRY. Marriage is what God created us for.
As we turn to Genesis 2, remember God has already made the entire Universe and crowned it with His last creation, in His image called a man.