Saturday, May 10, 2025

Loving God, Loving Your Spouse, Loving Yourself

Loving God, Loving Your Spouse, Loving Yourself

    Those of us who believe in a higher being, in the case of the Abrahamic faiths, God the Father, is a commandment of the first order. It is the first commandment brought down from Mount Sinai by Moses the Liberator of Israel. We are supposed to put God first in all we do. He is our Creator-- we answer to Him. We worship and love Him with all our heart, might, mind, and strength. Our souls are owned by Him, as we believe. Yahweh. Allah. Heavenly Father. For most Christians embodied by Jesus. We follow His commands, and plea for mercy and forgiveness as sinners, as mortals who cannot reach perfection and cannot access His status unless we lower ourselves, be contrite of heart, and willing of spirit to change and turn to Him, spiritually, letting go of the natural man and achieving a higher plane with the Divine. Becoming perfected in Him, in God.

    We are commanded to put Him first. How do we do that? That is up to thousands and millions of interpretations. And, then we have our neighbors that we are commanded to love, and there are the closest relationships that most of us enjoy: our families. We are commanded to be fruitful and multiply. Replenish the earth with children. That means that there are holy matrimonies in order. Husbands and wives. The foundation of the nuclear family. In Abrahamic and non-celestial religions and belief systems, the unit of the family and its head of the parents is primordial, fundamental, ultimately crucial in order to establish all things that God wants to do on this earth.

    Therefore, the wife. The husband. The matrimony. Marriage.

    A guy and a girl, a man and woman, is the relationship that matters most. Parenting, siring children, progeny. The family is the legacy. The Kingdom. The groom and the bride. These relationships become allegories to how God Himself is placed with His community, the Church. A man is to love His wife as Christ loved the Church, the New Testament proclaims. Paul expounds on  

    Over thousands of years of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, these core faiths and groups allowed many men, most considered holy and devout, to espouse to multiple wives. In modern Judaism and Christianity, most of the believers of these traditions no longer believe that polygamy or plural marriage is acceptable, fair, or right.

    If the main Abrahamic relationship is one man and one woman, as the Godly marriage covenant has developed this far modernly into the 21st century, then it can be confidently stated that the marriage of the wife and her husband is the key element to Godly living, obeying God the Father and following the dictums and commands of the Master, Jesus Christ, for Christians. For Jews and Muslims it is of prime importance as well, but Christians view it as the most holy earthly commitment, other than the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic priests who remain celibate to God and His faith, and the women who become nuns, married to the Saviour. 

    Within my faith in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the commitment to love God is akin and equivalent to loving one's spouse. Can we love God without loving the other? I say no. I think that I am backed up in this notion by our doctrine, practices, and policies. If I fail in loving my spouse, I fail in loving God and putting him first in all things. My wife, my spouse, becomes a huge part of how I worship and serve God. Kids come along in tow.

    TO BE CONTINUED.

    Break. I was going to go into more things about loving your partner, your spouse. Perhaps some personal stuff. A few days have past, a few hospital things and home care have happened.

    I will maybe get to the spouse and self-love later.

    Blog. It.

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