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How to Have a Happy Marriage
(verse
25),
and that includes
appreciating
them-treating
them
with
proper respect, "as being heirs together of the
grace of life"
(I
Pet. 3:7).
Many wives hold college degrees and are extremely capa–
ble women. But when they marry, they begin to devote all
their talents and efforts to being homemakers-wives and
mothers. It takes their full time to fulfill their roles and
responsibilities. They have been developing the skills
to
qual–
ify
every bit for the positions they will be given in God's
kingdom,
if
they continue to grow and overcome and are
privileged
to
be born into the family of God at the return of
Christ.
The quality that carries over to the kingdom of God from
this physical life is character. God will not save anyone he
cannot rule. The test of character in this life is the develop–
ment of faith and obedience. Any position-laborer, execu–
tive or homemaker-has built into it the training necessary
in preparation for spiritual responsibility in the world tomor-_
row. Then, unlimited power will be given to those who are
changed to immortal beings.
Housewives train just as much in the character-develop–
ing process. Positions of rulership are not passed out based
on the sums of money one controlled or how many employees
over which one had authority, but rather on what kind of
overcoming one does-on how well one does with what he or
she has to do with.
God has, in his infinite wisdom, provided the means and
opportunity in this lifetime for training and character devel–
opment for all people whom he calls.
Male
and
female
are terms that apply to this physical
life. In the kingdom we will neither marry nor be given in
marriage (Matt. 22:30). Resurrected from the dead and
changed from mortal to immortal, we shall all serve with
Christ, ruling with him for a thousand years and then fulfill–
ing our destinies for eternity.