READ: Ephesians 5:21-33
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
Ephesians 5: 31
Faithfulness unto death is the expectation of every married couple. Marriage is a covenant unto death. It is the coming together of two people to become one flesh. When you separate from your spouse, you are wrenching your flesh out of your spouse’s flesh.
All marriages are based on the concept of faithfulness unto death. All couples vow to be faithful unto death. Those famous words, “Until death us do part” are the promises we make to be faithful unto death. Are you not disappointed when a couple breaks up their marriage before death parts them? Marriage is a covenant that we enter into with a mind that, “I will be faithful unto death.” Many spouses are faithful to each other for a period of time. Sometimes, their season of faithfulness is short and sometimes it is long. When a spouse is faithful for his entire life then he is faithful unto death.
Being faithful unto death means being loyal and unchanging before and after marriage, all the way into your grave. One day, I interacted with a man who was lamenting about the poor performance of a manager of a legal firm. He said that he belonged to a board that had mistakenly employed a lady who was unstable. He described how this lady was unstable because she was unmarried. Being unmarried had affected her performance and stability.
Sometimes marriage stabilizes a person and at other times it causes instability. Will you be faithful after you are married? Will you be the same all the way through marriage and unto death?