More of The God Show. This starts The Marriage Channel. The previous post is HERE.
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So the whole earth is filled with authority, and all those authorities are copies – poor, sometimes awful, little copies – of the big original authority, which is God himself.
You think about these husband and wife, parent and kid, boss and employee, government and citizen, teacher and student, (and etc.) relationships – and maybe you also start to think of them as shadows and reflections.
And you can start thinking, what if marriage and work and all that, are actually supposed to put the real thing – God – on display, and show what he looks like? To us, to others, to the whole world?
And what if maybe we’re supposed to teach each other what God looks like by how we relate to each other, and by honoring his purpose for these authority relationships?
And so what about marriage? If you ask what marriage is, what it’s for, you get good answers like: companionship. Reproduce the human race. Satisfy basic desires.
And if you add in spiritual thinking you get: it’s supposed to be a picture of the relationship between God and his people. Husbands are to love their wives as Christ loved the church – you love God by loving your wife. Wives are to submit to the husband as to Christ – you trust God by trusting your husband.
And if you let all that soak in, maybe a tiny shiver of scariness goes thru you. A quick bit of fear and awe. A little distraction like that itchy tag on the back of your shirt collar that makes you want to grab the scissors and cut it off. It gnaws at you in the background, like it’s trying to get your attention. The distraction seems to want to say, “My marriage is bigger than my personal happiness.”
What if it is? And what if it’s even bigger than that?
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The God Show is five channels (in addition to the Bible) that don't change over time or according to culture, where God's ways, invisible attributes, eternal power and divine nature are clearly perceived but often missed: 1. Nature, 2. Authority, 3. Marriage, 4. Family, 5. You. Really, he's all over the place.
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