ARE YOU AWARE OF THE VOWS YOUR WIFE MADE BEFORE AND AFTER YOU GOT MARRIED? This is a somewhat long reading but we pray you find time to go through it. A vow is the ultimate expression of an inner will or determination to make good/fulfill a promise. When making marriage vows, we are reminded to take them seriously not ‘hurriedly without due consideration but after serious reverence’. The vows, though to a fellow human being are not ‘a joking subject’, in the words of Golola Moses’ How much more to a spirit, evil or holy. In other words, vows bound their makes with spiritual evidence against violation. God teaches us to go slow in making vows; Ecclesiastes 5: 3-When you make a vow to God, do not delay to fulfill it. He has no pleasure in fools; fulfill your vow. It is better not to make a vow than to make one and not fulfill it. This is God speaking!! Moreover it is very important for you to know the vow your spouse has made or is planning to make, let’s read… Numbers 30: 3-15 When a young woman still living in her father’s household makes a vow to the Lord or obligates herself by a pledge 4and her father hears about her vow or pledge but says nothing to her, then all her vows and every pledge by which she obligated herself will stand. 5But if her father forbids her when he hears about it, none of her vows or the pledges by which she obligated herself will stand; the Lord will release her because her father has forbidden her. 6“If she marries after she makes a vow or after her lips utter a rash promise by which she obligates herself 7and her husband hears about it but says nothing to her, then her vows or the pledges by which she obligated herself will stand. 8But if her husband forbids her when he hears about it, he nullifies the vow that obligates her or the rash promise by which she obligates herself, and the Lord will release her. 9“Any vow or obligation taken by a widow or divorced woman will be binding on her. 10“If a woman living with her husband makes a vow or obligates herself by a pledge under oath 11and her husband hears about it but says nothing to her and does not forbid her, then all her vows or the pledges by which she obligated herself will stand. 12But if her husband nullifies them when he hears about them, then none of the vows or pledges that came from her lips will stand. Her husband has nullified them, and the Lord will release her. 13Her husband may confirm or nullify any vow she makes or any sworn pledge to deny herself.a 14But if her husband says nothing to her about it from day to day, then he confirms all her vows or the pledges binding on her. He confirms them by saying nothing to her when he hears about them. 15If, however, he nullifies them some time after he hears about them, then he must bear the consequences of her wrongdoing.” Because God recognizes order and centre of authority and responsibility, the husband in a home has the ultimate responsibility and spiritual culpability for all the decisions of the home. God recognizes this and that is why He, wants their involvement all matters, not least making vows. The vows you emotionally make have no emotional but eternal attachment to you and your family. And because God recognizes patriarchal lineage/ancestry, He is accordingly fair enough to ensure that the husband/father is not drawn into responsibilities he was never part of initiating. Advice 1. People in courtship should be sensible enough to know the lineage vows of their suitors. 2. Husbands have a unique responsibility to get involved in the spiritual affairs of their wives. A serious spouse should not look when the wife is making vows to God, oblivious his attachment to the vows. In fact once the wife has made a vow; it is the responsibility of the husband to ensure it is fulfilled. 3. Wives should recognize that husbands are the heads of the entire family enterprise, without their blessing all efforts to disrespect this, is a direct disregard to God’s authority. 4. Husbands should equally know that vows have blessing or curses they bring, support and fulfill all the vows that lead to blessings and reject, stop and nullify all foolish and evil vows made with the devil. 5. Girls planning to get married should know that if they marry spiritually ‘sick’ men, i.e. the man is not born again; they have effectively put their lives under ‘sick’ leadership. You MUST marry a fellow born again, if you are a born a gain Christian. Blessed weekend Noah and Stella Obokello
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 08:37:37 +0000
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