(Marriage 101)
KNOWING THE RIGHT PERSON
Genesis 2:18 KJV
“And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.”
God does not want to give you a good person but the right person. The right person is not necessarily someone who was born to marry you per se; rather it is the person that has gone through the making of God. When you evidently see the workings of God in a person’s life, you can easily tell that he or she is not just born again, but beyond that, they have developed a functional and intimate relationship with God. The right person is someone who has value and respect for the word of God, he or she lives life by the word of God and it can be clearly seen.
The right person will be able to tell you about the dealings of God in their lives from time to time. You will not be able to miss it in their story and discussions. In our courtship period, my fiancée and I, (now my wife), had all kinds of discussions about the things that God had done and was doing in our lives at the time. As such our individual relationship with God was not in doubt at all, it was very easy to tell. Any person that is in touch with God at any level comfortable to you is and can be the right person. Also, it must be known that you can be the right person before marriage and become the wrong person after marriage. You may wonder why? It is very simple, once you stop doing the things that made you the right person that your spouse was willing to marry in the first place; you automatically become the wrong person. This explains why we still experience divorce amongst believers.
In summary, the right person is someone whose shepherd is the Lord Himself. Meaning that he or she is a sheep in the fold of God, according to the 23rd Psalm. And the most outstanding feature of a sheep in that psalm is that the shepherd "Makes" you. "The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want, He maketh me..." This brings us to our first point, that the right person is one who is in the making process of God; one whom God is making, and you can see it and sense it very easily. Such a person can easily narrate their experiences of walk with God without any ambiguity and difficulty at all. Watch out for tomorrow's devotional for the details of that making.
Receive grace to submit to the making process of God in Jesus Name. And as a married person, receive the grace to remain in the making hands of God and by so doing remain the right person to your spouse in Jesus Name.
Assignment
i. Scan your life and pen down every area where you have been unwilling for God to work on.
ii. Give yourself totally to God; withholding nothing.
Prayer
- Lord, I humble myself before your mighty Hand, I am the clay and You are the Potter; break me and make me over again.
- Father, please keep me constantly connected to your dealings in my life in Jesus name.
- May my premarital/marital relationship benefit directly from you workings in my life in Jesus Name.
Nugget
The right person is someone who has value and respect for the word of God, he or she lives life by the word of God and it can be clearly seen.
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