I have often shared with mothers over the years. that I believe it is not enough to love our children; we must also love motherhood. Of course, all mothers love their children, but not every mother loves her career of motherhood. Perhaps the majority don’t. Especially in our humanistic society young women have been brainwashed negatively about the career of motherhood and have been programmed instead for careers outside of the home.
However, it is not until we get the revelation that motherhood is the most powerful career in the nation and the career for which God has created us (physically and innately) and we embrace it with all our hearts that we live in the joy of it—and walk in the fullness of it.
Lately I have been thinking that this same principle applies to marriage. Yes, we may love our husband, but if we don’t love marriage itself, we will not enjoy the fulness of marriage as God intends. I believe it is important to embrace and love marriage as God designed it.
Young couples marry because they are madly in love. But it’s a new level to also be madly in love with marriage. Marriage is embracing our role and not our husband’s role. It is honoring our husband, and the role God has given him. It is laying down our life to serve. It is giving our life to make a sweet and peaceful home for our husband and our children. And yes, part of marriage is embracing the children God wants to give us. It’s no longer a “me” life. And of course, the greatest vision is that we are to be a picture to our children and to the world around of the relationship of Christ and His church the bride.
May you walk in the fullness of joy and blessing that God wants for your marriage—loving your husband and loving marriage too.
Love from Nancy Campbell