Ephesians 5:29-33, Marriage equals unity in flesh A healthy body.

New fad diets, exercise plans, keto recipes, intermittent fasting apps, and so much more is being paraded in front of our faces daily. What for? All for the effort to make us look good. That’s right. Not often are we sold on being healthy but looking our best. I think the two can come hand in hand, but we are superficially being sold the “look good” part to feed our flesh. Unfortunately, the same can be true for our marriages. We want it to look good more than we want it to be healthy. In Ephesians 5:29-33 the Apostle Paul directs our attention to a healthy, well treated body. One that is fed well and pampered. This is setting the stage to show us how Christ treats the church and how a husband and wife work in unity. Our bodies, the church, our marriages just don’t need to look good but be healthy. It’s not a superficial wellbeing but a deep-rooted health that God desires for us. The church with Christ as the head needs a lot of TLC. To be healthy, we must work in unity feeding and caring for one another in unity. Jesus has always lived up to his part but the unfortunately the church has not given God the respect that he deserves and therefore many times has caused the church to lose focus and stray into another’s arms. So many churches look good from the outside, but the health of the church is always revealed from the condition of how far their arm stretch, their feet walk, their words go, and their faith extends.

The same can go for a marriage. In these verses we see that a husband is to cherish his wife, to cling to her, to love her and for a wife to honor and respect her husband. The lack of doing any of these can cause weakness in a marriage. The health of this marriage is in danger. We can look good outside of home and wear the fake smile and post the sappy social media statuses but what is the true health of the marriage? Has it been well fed and pampered? Are the proper elements in place, the love and respect, for the husband and wife to remain faithful in the face of all temptation? Are they working as one to nourish the relationship and feed every need? Let’s not just look good but let us nourish the body of Christ and our marriages to be healthy and well and see God’s will completed.