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means forsaking a mate, children or family responsibilities.
It's when two mates realize they need and complement
each other that they draw close and grow to respect and love
each other. The Chinese have a saying that describes it, "One
hand washes the other."
What a wonderful, healing attitude to have in marriage!
"My love, we're a team-to share the joys of life together, to
conquer the difficulties and challenges of life together!"
It
is ignorance
to
drop burning matches into gasoline
cans to see if they will bum or explode.
Similarly, breaking God's marital laws will bum you.
Break God's laws and they break you! Millions are paying
painful mental, emotional and physical penalties for rejecting
or ignoring God's revealed laws on sex and marriage.
True love is the way of giving, sharing, helping, uplifting,
being constructive, being encouraging. It is the opposite of
the way of taking, of adultery, of selfishness, of hurting
others and being unmerciful. Those are Satan's ways and
attitudes. They produce evil and suffering in human lives and
marriages.
So let us not forget. God commanded a man
to
properly
guide his wife (Gen.
3:16).
Women
these
days are increasingly
domina ting over weak and ineffectual men (lsa.
3:12).
God
allows both men and women to reap the penalty for forsaking
their proper roles (verses
16-18).
God's Word teaches that a husband is the head of his