Erroneous Ideas About Marriage
1. I am not married because I am not beautiful
You see, everyone perceives beauty differently. You will be gorgeous to your partner no matter how you appear when you first meet. Why do you believe you lack beauty? It’s most likely because you heard that from certain folks. Yes, that is what they believe. Regardless of how you appear, someone will soon compliment you on how lovely you are
Psa 139:14 KJV
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
You are fearfully and wonderfully made. You will be fearful (ugly) to some and you will be wonderful (beautiful) to others!
When you meet your spouse, you will be beautiful.
Erroneous Ideas About Marriage
2. Due to my previous transgressions, God is punishing me.
God never uses the past to predict the future. Let’s examine the text of the Bible.
Heb 10:17 KJV
And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
Not only will God pardon you, but He will also forget about it. He would remove it from His files. And pay attention to what I say: Don’t let the devil, who accuses your fellow Christians, hold you back from what God has pardoned and forgotten.
Here is what The Message translation says:
Heb 10:17 MSG
He concludes, I’ll forever wipe the slate clean of their sins.
Don’t let the devil add anything more to what God has already said. Allow no one to insert a comma where God has placed a full stop.
Erroneous Ideas About Marriage
3. A woman can never surrender to her husband in a successful manner.
God commands women to submit to their husbands; it is not up for discussion. You will enter a season of unimaginable favor, an explosion of creativity, and the fullness of God’s blessings over your life when you submit to your husband. Why? because you are following God, despite the difficulty.
1Pe 3:1-2 AMP
(1) IN LIKE manner, you married women, be submissive to your own husbands [subordinate yourselves as being secondary to and dependent on them, and adapt yourselves to them], so that even if any do not obey the Word [of God], they may be won over not by discussion but by the [godly] lives of their wives,
(2) When they observe the pure and modest way in which you conduct yourselves, together with your reverence [for your husband; you are to feel for him all that reverence includes: to respect, defer to, revere him–to honor, esteem, appreciate, prize, and, in the human sense, to adore him, that is, to admire, praise, be devoted to, deeply love, and enjoy your husband].
