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The secret of a happy marriage. Thirty minutes to read and a lifetime to live.
Introduction
“Two are better than one... and a threefold cord is not quickly broken” (Eccl. 4:9,12). Here we find the secret of a happy marriage. We know that God planned it before sin entered the world. God said that it was not good for man to be alone, “I will make him an help meet for him” (Gen. 2:18). God is the One who provided a companion, a wife for Adam; not to be above or below him, but from his side, near to his heart: one who could share his thoughts, and whom he could love and honor. Then, when husband and wife let God order their lives they will have the threefold cord.
God did not intend that men and women should be in competition. He intended that they should help one another: each in a God-given place. He placed the man in a position of helpful leadership to care for his wife, his loving helpmeet. A man, who, in his marriage, has a happy life, and a really useful one, will gladly acknowledge that much-if not most-of the credit is due to his helpful wife. And this is God's plan. What is spoiling the world today is the idea of competition. Many women are out to show what they can do in the sphere that God planned for the men to occupy. Now we can be sure that God would not make a help meet for Adam who was inferior to him; but if she was going to compete with him in the headship assigned to him, then she would not be a help meet for him. They would always be striving with each other about who was going to be on top, instead of enjoying together the loving relationship, which God had planned.
In our present society, where God's plan has been given up to a large extent, everything is being spoiled. A man cannot fill a woman's place. But a woman often, because she is intellectually equal to a man, can fill a man's place, though not fitted by God for leadership (Isa. 3:12). This then leaves an empty void in the home. The home, then, does not function, as it should, because the man cannot fill the place of a woman and mother in the home. This often affects the assembly as well, for the order in the home reflects in the assembly (1 Tim. 3:12). In God's plan we see how He ordered things so that there would be a happy relationship—each one, man and wife, complementing (or, completing) the other. We readily acknowledge that a woman is as clever as a man (more clever in her God-given sphere) because God wanted a qualified person and a loving person in the home. And He has provided women who are able to adorn that place with prudence and dignity—a wonderful place, a God-given place; and so important.