godly seed.
It has been such a blessing to get to sit through the Family Life teachings which are on Sunday mornings before our ten o’clock service. Even though the teachings are always on parenting and marriage, I want very much to be starting to learn these things now rather than after I am married and possibly have children. My perspective of marriage and relationships has changed SO much from a year and a half ago. When I was with Daniel, I believe I was following Jesus, but I wanted to do the relationship how I wanted to do it rather than how God meant for it to be. This means I wanted to hug and kiss and act romantic when I had no business doing these things. I realize now that romance is for marriage. Wish I would have known then. But oh well, I know now.
God’s purpose for marriage has always been to bring forth a godly seed (Malachi 2) and this is why He said it was not good for Adam to be alone, because he alone could not bring fourth this seed. Adam had the seed but he had nowhere to plant it, if you get what I mean. Adam did not know he was alone. He had perfect fellowship with God he did not need NO woman. But God gave him her to bring fourth godly seed. That’s why Abraham was so bent on Isaac finding a godly wife from their people, so they could keep the godly heritage going. So the purpose is to bring fourth the godly seed and the romance and emotions are to keep you bonded once you are in covenant together. Sex not only brings fourth the seed, but it is the glue in the relationship. The world is all about marrying for romance and sex. Those things alone do not create any kind of solid foundation.
I can understand why people had arranged marriages back in the day and still do in other countries. If two families knew each other and each knew the other was of godly character and raised their kids to love the Lord and walk in His ways, you want to put those kids together and establish a covenant so they can bring fourth godly seed. Makes so much sense. I would not mind being in an arranged marriage, actually, if I was raised in a godly home. But to be totally honest, unless a man finds me who has that same purpose in mind and just desires to be totally sold out to Jesus, I would MUCH rather never get married. I am not by any means saying he has to be perfect or anything like that, but we would have to be on the same page in purpose and faith.
Learning this has really inspired me and helped me to control and contain my emotions and save them for marriage. This is such a different perspective and its un-heard-of for a female, especially because we tend to be insecure and give our hearts away to just any old thang that say we cute. But with this understanding of how God intended it to be, the status quo has lost its appeal. I give all credit to Holy Ghost because this is not someting I could comprehend with my crazy mind. Thank you, Jesus.
