MILITARY MARRIAGE

As a facilitator for the course titled A MarriageWithout Regrets by Kay Arthur, we have learned some wonderful truths about God’s plan. Honestly I have always said that the military couple truly is the example of God’s plan that instructs the husband to leave his mother and father and cleave to his wife. For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. Ephesians 5:31 Amplified

My husband and I were married on a Friday and at his first assignment miles away by the next weekend. The following five years of our marriage were spent across the ocean in Germany. So we couldn’t have left and cleft (is that a word ?) much farther at that time.

One of the spiritual truths that Kay teaches from the Scripture is that God instructs wives to reverence or respect their husbands. The most wonderful gift we can give to them is to respect and honor. Not only does the military wife have respect for him as her provider and her spiritual leader but also as a servant to our country.
God instructs men to love their wives as Christ loved the church. That’s some powerful love!

Have you heard the saying, “If you want him to treat you like a Queen, you need to treat him like a King” ?

God wants marriages to be beautiful, fulfilling, respectful and loving. He wants us to be the calm in the middle of the chaos by our example to a world of broken relationships and broken families.

Military wives, yours is a great challenge in this area. You have much to consider as you are in the midst of uncertainty. The very first thing that Kay instructs us to do is to continue to build on our relationship with God. Spend time with Him and read His Word. So many young wives whose husbands have deployed talk about the time they spent in prayer and in Bible Study while their husbands were away. It was a real time of hanging on to God and getting to know just how very much He cares for you.

Your time with your husband is precious and I want to encourage you to take that time to build lasting deep relationships while you are together. The glue that will hold you together during times of separation and deployment or even difficulty with assignments or special duties is first and foremost your relationship with God. Then the respect and love you have given to each other during your times together will keep your hearts knit together in all situations.

But now abide faith, hope and love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. Corinthians 13: 13 NAS

Carol

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