- Luis Palau
My wife, Pat, and I have been married for more than 30 years, and every day I thank God I married her! We're different in many ways, but we complement each other. Pat is a levelheaded thinker, while I tend to be a more impulsive decision-maker. I appreciate her strengths and have learned to rely on them regularly. In marriage, God wants us to learn to rest in each other's strengths.
It's exciting to have a wife who complements you, and if you marry in Christ, that's what happens. Your weaknesses she balances; her weaknesses you balance. God built this concept of complementing one another into marriage at the very beginning. After creating Adam, God said, "I will make a helper suitable for him" (Genesis 2:18), and then He formed Eve. Why? Because without her, Adam was incomplete.
Interestingly, that word helper is used throughout the Old Testament to describe someone of strength. Obviously Eve had a lot going for her. She supplied what Adam lacked. But Adam could receive what she had to offer, and she could receive what Adam had for her, only by submitting to each other.
The Apostle Paul had a lot to say about how husbands and wives should relate to each other, but before saying any of it he commanded, "Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ" (Ephesians 5:21). Fact number one in God's blueprint for happy homes, then, is . . .
It's exciting to have a wife who complements you, and if you marry in Christ, that's what happens. Your weaknesses she balances; her weaknesses you balance. God built this concept of complementing one another into marriage at the very beginning. After creating Adam, God said, "I will make a helper suitable for him" (Genesis 2:18), and then He formed Eve. Why? Because without her, Adam was incomplete.
Interestingly, that word helper is used throughout the Old Testament to describe someone of strength. Obviously Eve had a lot going for her. She supplied what Adam lacked. But Adam could receive what she had to offer, and she could receive what Adam had for her, only by submitting to each other.
The Apostle Paul had a lot to say about how husbands and wives should relate to each other, but before saying any of it he commanded, "Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ" (Ephesians 5:21). Fact number one in God's blueprint for happy homes, then, is . . .