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You've heard the expression, "I can't believe I ate the whole thing." Well, in a nut shell, that expression becomes the definition of marriage!? Marriage is like one great big pie -- not just a piece. We want to think of life as the pie with marriage as a slice. This then allows for us to think of sex as another piece, sports activities as another piece, family as another, job as another, etc.
There is safety in this kind of bifurcating. Separation is identified in this piecing of the pie. Some people get the idea that there is no relationship between sex and family and job and work and so on. Somehow we go to work but forget about marriage. We play a game of baseball without recognizing its relationship to the family.
But there is an over arching principle involved in this lesson. In becoming "one flesh," a full-time partnership in life takes place. A natural priority is established for us by God. We do not determine our marriage relationship -- God does. "What ... God has joined ... let no man put asunder"; nor shall baseball, golf, another woman or man, the job, churchliness, etc.
Marriage becomes a conscientious preoccupation of one's self with another self. Two become one. A concert of harmony is being played by the partners. There is not a melody line supported by accompaniment. Rather both are contributing to the one sound.
-- Netz
You've heard the expression, "I can't believe I ate the whole thing." Well, in a nut shell, that expression becomes the definition of marriage!? Marriage is like one great big pie -- not just a piece. We want to think of life as the pie with marriage as a slice. This then allows for us to think of sex as another piece, sports activities as another piece, family as another, job as another, etc.
There is safety in this kind of bifurcating. Separation is identified in this piecing of the pie. Some people get the idea that there is no relationship between sex and family and job and work and so on. Somehow we go to work but forget about marriage. We play a game of baseball without recognizing its relationship to the family.
But there is an over arching principle involved in this lesson. In becoming "one flesh," a full-time partnership in life takes place. A natural priority is established for us by God. We do not determine our marriage relationship -- God does. "What ... God has joined ... let no man put asunder"; nor shall baseball, golf, another woman or man, the job, churchliness, etc.
Marriage becomes a conscientious preoccupation of one's self with another self. Two become one. A concert of harmony is being played by the partners. There is not a melody line supported by accompaniment. Rather both are contributing to the one sound.
-- Netz
