Marriage was meant to be a covenant between a man and a woman. In Genesis, God made a help mate for Adam to keep him from getting lonely and help him with the Garden. But after they sinned, everything changed.
Adam refused to admit he had any part in the disobedient act of eating the fruit. Instead, he said, “it was the woman You gave me.” This opened up the first can of worms between them.
Bitterness, blaming and distrust sprang up in the middle of what once was a lovely relationship, and so it continues, thousands of years later, with rejection, abuse, in divorce court, mediation, separation, in broken and bitter families, with no strong presence guarding the door of the home to keep out the thieves and the peddlers of lies.
To this day, the Adams of this world have a hard time admitting when they are wrong. It is a curse upon all mankind and is the root of more marital discord than we can imagine. The men seem to have a generally hard time repenting or confessing their need for a Savior or being nice to their wives.
The curse of the woman was to desire her husband and he would have the rule over her. We do not have to imagine what a mess sin and hardness of heart have made of that situation! But there is hope. Listen and let all of us repent. It is time to break the curse of bitterness that controls the relationships between a man and his wife.
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