Written by Obasi Colombus Oforka
Marriage institution were the first institution God created on earth. Other institutions were created by human being through the wisdom and knowledge God gave us as gifts.
In marriage institution, there is no lecturer present in the lecture hall or classroom, no timetable for lecture or examination hour, nobody to issue you results but there is a lot of assignment, test, missing scripts and carryover. It is an institution without academic and non academic staffs but it have all facilities required to operate standard institution.
In the higher institution of learning, there is many departments, academic and non academic staffs, contract staffs, students all specialized in one field or the other but in the institution of marriage nothing like specialist. At institution of learning, it contains hundreds and thousands of staffs and students while two persons occupied institution of marriage. The two persons involved are the academic and non academic staffs, classrooms and offices,laboratories,workshop and students of the institution. The institution operate without graduation period like other institutions. The securities in the higher institutions work strictly hard in order to gain promotion and good salary but marriage institution securities work strictly hard to promote peace, understanding, trust, etc.
Marriage institution can be effectively operate when management concepts are properly implemented. Management concepts include plan, organizing, directing and control. Let us look at how those concepts works in marriage.
PLAN: It is the foundation at which all the areas of management shall be build. Planning demand administration to assess, where the marriage is presently set, and where it will be in the future. It gives room to determined an appropriate course of action and implementation of the marriage’s goals and objectives.
It also an external factors that constantly affect a marriage both optimistically and pessimistically .
In planning, management analyzes both inner and outer factors that may affect the marriage and it’s objectives. It is an avenue to study the strength and weaknesses, opportunities and threats. For marriage plan to be efficient and effective, it has to be very practical and ample.
ORGANIZE: It is a process of coordinating all resources well before put into practice a course of action and to ensure that what has been planned is the base function. This process determine the inside directorial configuration, establish and maintain relationships.
DIRECT: It helps couple to control and supervise their behaviour . It also help to assist each other in achieving their marriage purpose and accomplishing their personal or career goals which e powered by motivation, communication, dynamics in nature and good leadership. It is very vital to maintain a productive communication habits, building positive interpersonal relationships, and problem solving in your marriage. The finest techniques of finding areas that requires improvement in marriage is to ask each other at regular intervals, how well are we doing?. This leads to better relationship and helps the couple for better directing plans.
CONTROL: It is the establishment of standard performance which form the base of marriage purpose. It also demand the evaluation of the couple attitude or behaviour performance. This process provide an opportunity to learn each other behaviour and forgiveness of each other as well when case arise. Our Elder normally encourage youths to marry with one eye, it doesn’t mean that we should blind one of our eye before we get married but it implies that we should learn how to over some certain things and cultivate habit of forgiven as well. In higher institution of learning , if a student has carryover, he/she will resit for the paper/exams and graduate at end when he/she final passed the course or the department decided to write it off. But there is no graduation even when passed your carryover in the institution of marriage rather you will have more outstanding waiting for you. Note, the difference between successful marriage and struggling (broken) marriage is marriage education. When I said marriage education, I mean the God’s objectives in creation of marriage at first place. There are three purposes of creation or institution of marriage.
Reflect God’s image – Genesis 1 : 26-27, God stated that ‘‘let us create man in our image, in our likeness and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth and over all the creature that move along the ground. However, God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created male and female ‘’
God take both man and woman in oneness in order to reflect on his image. So when a couple imitated division, quarrel of any kind, they actually reflecting the disunity of Satan and disobeying God. Also in Genesis 2 : 18 “God make it clear that it is not good for a man to stay alone. I will make a suitable companion to help him “ while Genesis 2:24 “stated that a man shall leave his parents and unite with his wife and they shall become one flesh “.
Reproduce children in God’s likeness – Bible let us know that God created human being on his own likeness. He went ahead and gave them blessing and finally instructed them to go and multiply, fill the earth and take charges of other creatures (Genesis 1:28). The God purpose to married couples is to reproduce children in his likeness. Any couple who engages in division, angry, competitive cannot be able to fulfill the objectives of marriage creation. Nobody on earth can give out what he/she don’t have. This shows that good morals instruction, godly discipline and principle of agape love must be transferred from parents to children. A broken home cannot teach good morals and right attitude.
Reign in spiritual warfare – We are to be uncharged of the physical resources in our custody and must do our part in the spiritual world. Spiritual fight goes on in every heart. This spiritual fight can be championed by couple when they come together in unity and oneness. To achieve God’s purposes for your marriage, you must be at one with your spouse and with God. Unity happen as a result of believing that God has uniquely place you together in agreement with God’s will and with each other. Practical results are cooperation, unity and encouragement.
Marriage were not man made institution but divine institution. Take it or leave it, no newspaper, television reporters were present when marriage first established but only God alone. Please brethren, kindly seeks God’s intervention in your marriage both before and after marriage. In Ephesians 6:12 and I quote “our struggle is not against flesh and blood but against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms “. This passage make us to understand that our struggle is not against our spouse but against Satan who wants us to believe that our spouse is the problem. We must learn to focus our mind onto Jesus Christ and not on human being. If a broken marriage and home can turn to the objectives /purposes of God on marriage, their wounded marriage will be heal.
Marriage institution were the first institution God created on earth. Other institutions were created by human being through the wisdom and knowledge God gave us as gifts.
In marriage institution, there is no lecturer present in the lecture hall or classroom, no timetable for lecture or examination hour, nobody to issue you results but there is a lot of assignment, test, missing scripts and carryover. It is an institution without academic and non academic staffs but it have all facilities required to operate standard institution.
In the higher institution of learning, there is many departments, academic and non academic staffs, contract staffs, students all specialized in one field or the other but in the institution of marriage nothing like specialist. At institution of learning, it contains hundreds and thousands of staffs and students while two persons occupied institution of marriage. The two persons involved are the academic and non academic staffs, classrooms and offices,laboratories,workshop and students of the institution. The institution operate without graduation period like other institutions. The securities in the higher institutions work strictly hard in order to gain promotion and good salary but marriage institution securities work strictly hard to promote peace, understanding, trust, etc.
Marriage institution can be effectively operate when management concepts are properly implemented. Management concepts include plan, organizing, directing and control. Let us look at how those concepts works in marriage.
PLAN: It is the foundation at which all the areas of management shall be build. Planning demand administration to assess, where the marriage is presently set, and where it will be in the future. It gives room to determined an appropriate course of action and implementation of the marriage’s goals and objectives.
It also an external factors that constantly affect a marriage both optimistically and pessimistically .
In planning, management analyzes both inner and outer factors that may affect the marriage and it’s objectives. It is an avenue to study the strength and weaknesses, opportunities and threats. For marriage plan to be efficient and effective, it has to be very practical and ample.
ORGANIZE: It is a process of coordinating all resources well before put into practice a course of action and to ensure that what has been planned is the base function. This process determine the inside directorial configuration, establish and maintain relationships.
DIRECT: It helps couple to control and supervise their behaviour . It also help to assist each other in achieving their marriage purpose and accomplishing their personal or career goals which e powered by motivation, communication, dynamics in nature and good leadership. It is very vital to maintain a productive communication habits, building positive interpersonal relationships, and problem solving in your marriage. The finest techniques of finding areas that requires improvement in marriage is to ask each other at regular intervals, how well are we doing?. This leads to better relationship and helps the couple for better directing plans.
CONTROL: It is the establishment of standard performance which form the base of marriage purpose. It also demand the evaluation of the couple attitude or behaviour performance. This process provide an opportunity to learn each other behaviour and forgiveness of each other as well when case arise. Our Elder normally encourage youths to marry with one eye, it doesn’t mean that we should blind one of our eye before we get married but it implies that we should learn how to over some certain things and cultivate habit of forgiven as well. In higher institution of learning , if a student has carryover, he/she will resit for the paper/exams and graduate at end when he/she final passed the course or the department decided to write it off. But there is no graduation even when passed your carryover in the institution of marriage rather you will have more outstanding waiting for you. Note, the difference between successful marriage and struggling (broken) marriage is marriage education. When I said marriage education, I mean the God’s objectives in creation of marriage at first place. There are three purposes of creation or institution of marriage.
Reflect God’s image – Genesis 1 : 26-27, God stated that ‘‘let us create man in our image, in our likeness and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth and over all the creature that move along the ground. However, God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created male and female ‘’
God take both man and woman in oneness in order to reflect on his image. So when a couple imitated division, quarrel of any kind, they actually reflecting the disunity of Satan and disobeying God. Also in Genesis 2 : 18 “God make it clear that it is not good for a man to stay alone. I will make a suitable companion to help him “ while Genesis 2:24 “stated that a man shall leave his parents and unite with his wife and they shall become one flesh “.
Reproduce children in God’s likeness – Bible let us know that God created human being on his own likeness. He went ahead and gave them blessing and finally instructed them to go and multiply, fill the earth and take charges of other creatures (Genesis 1:28). The God purpose to married couples is to reproduce children in his likeness. Any couple who engages in division, angry, competitive cannot be able to fulfill the objectives of marriage creation. Nobody on earth can give out what he/she don’t have. This shows that good morals instruction, godly discipline and principle of agape love must be transferred from parents to children. A broken home cannot teach good morals and right attitude.
Reign in spiritual warfare – We are to be uncharged of the physical resources in our custody and must do our part in the spiritual world. Spiritual fight goes on in every heart. This spiritual fight can be championed by couple when they come together in unity and oneness. To achieve God’s purposes for your marriage, you must be at one with your spouse and with God. Unity happen as a result of believing that God has uniquely place you together in agreement with God’s will and with each other. Practical results are cooperation, unity and encouragement.
Marriage were not man made institution but divine institution. Take it or leave it, no newspaper, television reporters were present when marriage first established but only God alone. Please brethren, kindly seeks God’s intervention in your marriage both before and after marriage. In Ephesians 6:12 and I quote “our struggle is not against flesh and blood but against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms “. This passage make us to understand that our struggle is not against our spouse but against Satan who wants us to believe that our spouse is the problem. We must learn to focus our mind onto Jesus Christ and not on human being. If a broken marriage and home can turn to the objectives /purposes of God on marriage, their wounded marriage will be heal.
Marriage as an institution
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