Marriage Revealed

Marriage is a social union between two individuals that has merely become nothing but a legal contract binding two lives together for a moment in time.
Why has the beautiful essence of this union been so carelessly transformed into a contract of forced sense of entrapment?
We , as humans, are claimed to be the smartest mammals that inhabit planet earth, yet have become incapable of holding sacred the most important bond we have implemented within ourselves in order to grow and raise a morally successful future.
While divorce is ever rising among the lives of our fellow citizens, many others continue to indulge themselves into a commitment that I'm quite sure they are mis-interpreting.
Marriage is an honorable transformation for any two people. It is not a right amongst ourselves, but is a privilege. To say you have a right to be married is like saying you have the right to divorce. And as we are so clearly aware of, two wrongs, do not make a right.
Any two people think they are entitled to make the decision to commit themselves to one another. However, they need to understand and grasp that they are reverently, discreetly, advisedly and solemnly binding their heart, soul, and mind into one. In turn, by this commitment that they think they are so rightfully entitled to, they have sacredly made a decision to continually grow within one another which requires mutual care, respect, and acknowledgement of the responsibility of the moral and physical union of loyalty, honesty and trust that they will use to construct their love into a single growing energy of spiritual life.
To be able to not only be responsible for your own life, you are now, not rightfully entitled to, but are privileged to be responsible for your spouses life as well. Which in turn , means, that you do not have the right to single handily destroy or take upon yourself to now embrace the act of divorce from this commitment that you have consecrated into willfully with and for your significant other and yourself.
As stated within the traditional vows of the binding of two persons into this morally honorable privilege we have been blessed to enter into, we vow to love, comfort, honor and keep one another through sickness and health, richer, or poorer, for better, for worse, in sadness and in joy, and vow to cherish and continually bestow our hearts deepest devotion, forsaking all others, in an unbroken circle, as long as we both shall live. We now are bonded to not only embrace our dreams and realize our hopes together, but face our disappointments and accept our failures together. This commitment is a promise to one another to aspire to all these ideals through mutual understanding, respect, openness and sensitivity to each other.
Besides the legal affirmations of a contract that seal this commitment into finality, it is the moral understanding of two individuals that consecrates this bond and makes it a privilege to bestow and live life together as an example to society. It shows the ability and power of two people successfully willing to allow themselves to work and believe in one another in order to help not only themselves, but the world around them as two are more flourishing and capable than one.
As divorce is not a product of a bond that is unattainable, it is a product of a weak man unable to comprehend the importance of marriage itself. Two people were made in order to become one, but it is up to each one of these individuals to realize and fathom the stakes at which they are putting and believing in to create a future that is indestructible by no other than themselves.
As the bible says:
"... Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate."
-Matthew 19:4-6
Unfortunately, again, when you make the decision to marry another person, you vow to become one until the day you die. You vow to respect that other person as you respect yourself as you two are now one, not separates.
It is the responsibility of you and only you, to inspect and understand the human being in which you are going to mold your life with. As you vow to grow together, and not apart from one another, this is a mutual understanding between two people that has one morally correct result, which is forever.
When the decision of divorce is presented in a marriage, it is a product of ones weak sense of interpretation of the pledge they made to their spouse. You either entered into a commitment you misunderstood through the lack of your own knowledge, or you were blindly mislead by your spouse into their ignorant behavior of deceit. To embellish in your own self gratification for a moment in time that is supposed to be a sacred engagement for the rest of your life with another person is to abolish any sense of trust or genuine sense of character within yourself.
If you are going to make the decision to enter into marriage, I highly recommend you take a second to research within yourself what this divine promise and responsibility not only means to you, but what it means to your spouse. Realize that you are deciding to become an example to society of a partnership that is solid and unyielding to the temptations of hypocrisy.
To vow to another for the rest of your life where divorce is not an option is pure devotion and undeniably the perfect intimate meaning and symbol in the fruitation and fulfillment of marriage.
So as you are eager to take anothers life and mesh it into yours, clearly appreciate and recognize the importance of the vow you are about to unify with that other. Don't let the pressures of your own instant gratification blind the future of what ultimately will solidify your meaning in life if understood and entered into correctly.
Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate."
ReplyDeleteI admire your guts and voice and I would like to share my side: Jeremy and I have been together for 10 years and we have an 8 year old beautiful little girl and an awesome 3 year old little boy. Together we bought a house with a white picket fence and we hope to spend the rest of our lives together. But, I don't want to get married. I knew this at an early age,I never saw myself in a white dress walking down the aisle....but I always see myself with a family and a true love. Is this wrong? J and I have an amazing relationship that has been through hell and back, he is my best friend, yet, what is wrong with me? He practically begs to "get married" but I frankly, do not see the point. What right does someone else have to validate my heart?
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