Friday, 15 April 2016

CONTROL COMMUNICATION CHANNEL- A-Z OF SUCCESSFUL MARRIAGE by Femi Obadun





Control your Ccommunication Channels
Many marriages may have had their fire of first love put out, and their oil of marital bliss contaminated by the external forces. Marriage is like your electronic gadget that has a  dial, you, the owner or operator of the gadget decides what channel to tune to. Marriage  can as well be likened to devices that cannot produce clarity of both picture and sound except with either internal or external antennae, and the direction in which you turn the antenna determines the strength or otherwise of the signal you would receive. But many spouses  come to the marriage institution with their external antennae permanently set in the direction of their former friends, siblings and parents, whereas what they both need is internal antennas positioned in the direction of the one that created marriage and ask for his guidance and blessings.
The onset of marital union makes you a spectacle to your well wishers and enemies alike; therefore there must be a control on who you share your feelings with. I advise spouses to be sensitive to comments from external sources and from their close relations.  You should withdraw from those whose comments are not sound and fair enough to cement your union, but rather to incite hatred toward your partner. Those who try to put asunder in the union which God himself has created  are neither your friends nor God’s friends. Those who are fond of telling you about how wayward your spouse’s people or tribes are,such people are not good enough people to seek counsel from when the chips are down. Those who are always ready to run down your spouse even in your presence, disguising as if in solidarity with you over your pains and complaints cannot be said to be among people God placed in your marital path to produce the balm that can heal your marital wounds. God is the initiator of marriage. And we can only reach God through his only begotten son, Jesus Christ, who also died for our sins. Therefore, anyone, regardless of his or her closeness to you, who brings ideas of seeking other gods when storm arises in your home, have only been positioned to be instrumental to the demise of the sacred union. Yea, marital union is sacred indeed, because it was not invented by men and so cannot be preserved through the help of worldly and sensual persons.Therefore when you seek assistance in sensual counselors who are completely ignorant of the spiritual aspects of marriage, you might just have invited trouble into your home. I also want to give a solemn warning to young couples especially the women,who seek spiritual guidance in the home of self acclaimed prophets (whether the prophet so called is single or married). Many innocent young spouses have ended up in the bedroom of these wolves in sheep’s clothing, so beware! If you are a married lady, how often do you complain to a male colleague of yours or your male boss of lack of money in your home or the incompetence of your husband? Though you may be doing this in good faith, but I tell you, the channel you are directing your complaints to is a wrong one, for a bad and godless boss can take advantage of this and thus send  your marriage into the abyss. In the same token, a married man is employing a wrong channel for his complaints when he takes pleasure in discussing the bad side of his wife with an unmarried lady. Using any of these wrong channels means that you have made an opening for the enemy to come into the sacred union.  



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