I saw this post by a virtual friend, Peter Adeosun, on facebook yesterday, and after reading, I wondered why we humans forget that simple truth; that we are all created in God's image and likeness, and as such, we should cherish and respect others, particularly those closest to us, as we would God.
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Today's Saturday & many weddings will happen today. Here's what I have to say about how to solve ALL marital problems. No marital problem would exist if folks could follow these principles. People who claim to believe in God wouldn't have marital problems only if they would treat their spouses like they treat God....
Only if they would wake up in the morning & first thing do a 'quiet time' 'praying' to their spouses like they would do to God...
Only if they would spend the whole day to 'commune' closely with their spouses the way they commune with God...
Only if they would apologize to their spouses for everything the way they ask for forgiveness from God...
There are times when people are pushed to blame God but they won't. They would rather blame just about anything/anybody else (including themselves) than blame God. Only if people would rather blame just about anything/anybody else (including themselves) than blame their spouses for whatever has happened...
People always give testimonies of only the good things their God does for them. They wouldn't even believe that their God can do anything evil. Only if they would similarly overlook their spouses' weaknesses & instead testify to the good things their spouses do for them...
Only if they would politely tell their spouses what they want them to do without shouting or harassing them like they would tell God what they want him to do for them without insulting him...
Only if they wouldn't do what their spouses wouldn't want whether in their presence or absence the same way they wouldn't do what the God they can't see doesn't want...
Nobody has ever seen God. Yet they're so committed to him. Only if people wouldn't let the prolonged physical absence of their spouses reduce their commitment...
God works in very mysterious ways. He has the most complex mind in existence but somehow people still claim to understand how God thinks & what he wants. Only if people would similarly understand their spouses & not hide behind the supposed impossibility of understanding how members of a particular gender think & what they want....Only if they would decode their spouses' minds like they readily decode the most complex mind in existence...
Only if they would feel highly privileged to have been chosen & loved by their spouses like they feel privileged to have been chosen/elected by their God...
People have been reading the same holy books & talking about the same God for millenia & this God is still new to them every morning. Only if their spouses would still be new to them every morning even after 70 years of marriage...
People notice that their love for God is waxing cold & they do some things to reignite it. Only if they would similarly watch their love for their spouses & reignite it when they notice it's growing cold...
Other Gods are being advertised around them but they keep to their God. They can't be distracted/attracted away from their God to strange gods. Even when the road is rough, they sing 'I've got my mind made up & I won't turn back'. Only if they would defy all other folks advertising themselves to them & stick to their spouses similarly... Only if they would similarly 'get their minds made up' as to not be lured away from their spouses to strange men & women...
People still keep on worshipping their God wholeheartedly even when he hasn't taken them out of extreme poverty, barrenness & suffering. They claim that their relationship with God is more than riches & good things of this world. Only if they would similarly stick to their spouses even if there's no child, money, shopping spree in Dubai, etc...
People value their relationships with their God so much that they say their relationship with their God is personal & nobody can come in between. Only if they would keep their relationship with their spouses similarly personal & not expose it to the third party...
People strive to conduct themselves in such a manner as to protect the image of their God (i.e. to not let the name of their God be 'spoken evil against'). Only if they would conduct themselves similarly as to protect the image of their spouses...
People believe they can't keep secrets from God. So they tell God everything & ask for guidance. Only if they would similarly keep no secrets from their spouses & then inform their spouses about every little detail of their plans...
I can go on & on but I have to stop. However it's important to note that this is in total contrast to what people are told. Usually the man is told to develop a personal relationship with God. The wife is also told to develop a personal relationship with God. Then they're both told to bond together via God. Is God some sort of socket/adaptor via which you can connect 2 separate things? Thus you come up with 2 individuals who are completely married to their Gods & but not to their spouses. They spend all the time fellowshipping with the God they can't see while neglecting each other that they can see. I'm fact they're so bonded with their God that they start to hallucinate by noticing that God is showing them that their spouse is evil & that they should separate from their spouse. Instead what if they're told to bond to each other with the same avidity with which they're told to individually bond to God?
