This may seem cliché but I am grateful for Christ and my wife in my life. Marriage was something that I knew to be a desirable and attainable goal since my middle school days. By the time I’d matured in age and the Word, my view of marriage grew deeper as I realized that the best example of marriage was not my parents – although they’ve been married for 50+ years. It was/is Jesus Christ and His bride: the Church.
This is the ultimate model. With this couple as the barometer for marriage, a person’s background doesn’t’ matter. Single-parent households and blended families from divorce doesn’t matter. Seeing abusive parental relationships as a child doesn’t matter. As long as you seek to understand and develop the bond between Jesus as husband and the Church as His bride, your marriage – pending or seasoned – can evolve and endure.
That said, is there any wonder why celebrity marriages of status have perished and marital values in America are on the decline? If you want to keep your marriage fresh, might I suggest a ménage à trois? My French is rusty but the last I checked, the literal translation of this phrase is “a household of three.” Meaning, make your marriage consist of you, your spouse and the Godhead of the Church.
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The Wife of Christ
How could you ignore Her?
How could you not adore Her?!!
How could you border boredom within Her presence?
How could you tolerate being cleansed within Her
by a promenade of Crimson Embers –
Yet be a tinted member as a sinner within Her essence?
Jesus was twelve when He first realized He loved Her.
He delved into the depths of sacrifice when He left His mother.
Later He wept and wondered how He could give His life to protect Her wealth.
He set the best example for all husbands
When He accepted a sentence of wrongful judgment…
As She witnessed His crucifixion behind the protection of Her veil.
How could you disrespect the Wife of Jesus Christ
By not having Her centered about your heathen life?
He bled to sanctify Her and cherish the merit of their union.
He sought Her before She was fully addressed –
Long before the rest of the world beheld Her elegance…
As She became His one and only in a ceremony that let you in.
We all became His best men and Her maids of honor
As stewards of the newer covenant made in the sight of the Father.
But in time, we’ve let domestic abuse batter Her image so sacred.
We’ve separated Her into isolation.
We’ve allowed laws that have segregated us from our priceless Maiden…
Leaving her abandoned until Christ returns single-handed to renew His splendid engagement.
Unlike our vows that last “until death do us part,”
His death allowed Him to rescue Her heart.
When He renews His promise, some will be admonished by the rapture.
For the ceremony and the reception
Have been prepared only for a select section…
Those who chose to uplift the worth of the Church
through the words that we’ve learned from the Bible’s chapters.
‘Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the church and handed Himself over for her to sanctify her, cleansing her by the bath of water with the word, that He might present to Himself the church in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.’
– Ephesians 5:25-27
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Ménage à Trois
If there can be found another mean,
Leave it deemed to me to retrieve –
I’ve got a sense it seems in defining double entrendres.
You may think this poem’s about heathenish sex ,
But it’s about a relationship’s best secret kept…
A household of three’s deemed best in redeeming this troubled genre.
Though the title’s subset is an explicit reference
Suggested in depth by its French connection,
Suppress it for a second and explore its literal translation.
It’s a way out for married couples to explore
That saves the devout from various troubles endured…
When played out, its rebuttal beckons the Lord in the midst of man’s haven.
A man and wife’s household should be trisected.
God as the third party ought to be vitally injected.
We shouldn’t try to suppress the trifecta of God, husband and wife.
For the existing love between two individuals
Is an extension from above of His true residuals…
For a marriage is truly pitiful if it doesn’t honor the Father and the love of Christ.
So though intercourse was created to strengthen the bond,
There’s an inner source that makes it infinitely strong.
Without Him, each side’s length is gone – don’t miss His crucial point.
To avoid vows that end as awful deeds,
Allow each other’s arms to extend as an isosceles…
As only such geometries does the Holy Trinity most beautifully anoint.
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“And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.”
– Ecclesiastes 4:12
