Love and Marriage
It strikes me that Love is to be seen as Truth in action at the gray areas where the values are as finite as our human nature would indicate. Jesus who came into the world is the embodiment of Love.
Which came first: Truth or Love? Truth obviously. Jesus came as representation of Truth that human nature can latch onto. What Jn 3:16 therefore says fits with Love as the embodiment of Truth and can bridge the chasm or gray areas where Truth is often misunderstood and also expressed very poorly.
In love we seek truth in our inward parts: we love the one on whom we have pledged our loyalty and made a commitment; it is demonstrated no matter what our circumstances are,- in health, in sickness and rich or poor. Despite what our external circumstances may be we rely on our own interior life where soul has its sovereignty. That is where ‘deep calls unto the deep’. Soul can take Truth as axiomatic. But our body comes in between. Alas.
Jesus didn’t marry and yet we look up to him for the sanctity and health of our marriage. He is the embodiment of Truth and it means he has a body like every one else. He expressed love in the way he took our infirmities and weaknesses on the cross. In sharing that love in our married state we are aiming at a higher Truth than what truth of nature speaks to us with a lisp.
benny
Labels: celibacy, Christian practice, love and Truth, marriage
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