Mobile Daily Devotional with Pst. Fakunle Emmanuel, Week 40, Day 6, Friday, 8th October 2021. TOPIC: IMPROVE YOURSELF 5:

“22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

23 For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. 

24 Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, 

26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, 

27 that He might  present her to Himself a glorious church, not  having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.

28 So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.

29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church.

30 For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones.

31 “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”

32 This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

33 Nevertheless let each one of you in  particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.”

Marriage is the will of God for mankind not just for Christians, Gen 1:28. It is a tool in the hand of God to fill the earth with human being. God created marriage for Matured Man and Woman, to live together as one. The door to every successful marriage should be LOVE (although some entered with lust) but to sustain every marriage, we need more than love and this is where many get it wrong. I will like to say this, no marriage can’t be successful if the parties involves are not willing to improve on their individual lives. Change is constant in every human and likewise in marriages, so, personal improvement goes a long way to forster our marriages in order.

Apostle Paul talked about the attitude of the husband to the wife and vice versa. If the man is ready to improve on himself in order for the marriage to work, it will be done. Likewise, if the woman will improve on her attitude and submit, the marriage can work. Every challenge in our marriage is directing us to improve on some areas of our life. For men, improvement on how to relate with woman, understanding their attitude and their strength can help build a better marriage. Woman should also improve on accepting the man’s fault, and focus on his strength with prayers, the marriage can work.

I’ve come to discover that, every successful marriage is a product of “the Fool and the Wise”. One plays the fool while the other plays the wise, but at the end of it all, the wise one will discovered, he/she was not the wise but he/she was just accepted to play the role. Likewise, the fool will also realise that, his/her foolishness was what built the marriage. Improve your marriage by being bendable, forget about finding faults, forgive ahead and make your home your responsibility, before you know what, you are building a successful home. Improve by reducing your nagging, correction, casting of blame, reasoning before castigating, and be a listener. Your marriage can be the best by improving on yourself to influence your partner rightly. Your marriage depends on you.