Faith as an Allegory for Marriage.

Jesus is The Bridegroom.  The Song of Songs is in the Bible as an allegory for God's love for Israel....or the Church.  There are allegories between faith, a personal relationship with God, and marriage.   This is Fundamental to Christianity.  Dribbling a basketball is fundamental to a the game of basketball.  Someone who couldn't dribble, he may look funny, or be kicked off the court.  Understanding the allegories between faith and marriage is Fundamental to Christianity.  

• But I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man,^[a] and the head of Christ is God.  (1 Corinthians 11:3)  
•  ²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;²⁶ That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,²⁷ That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.  (Ephesians 5:25-27)
•  Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. ²³ For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. ²⁴ Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.  (Ephesians 5:22-23) 

Given a man and woman are married, they may be able to grow in faith together.  They may be able to learn things about God and creation in their marriage.  

Part of learning to talk to God is intuitive.  God sees everything.  Were you ashamed of something?  Growing in faith with God, someone may need to confess their sins, and clean their honor, so that they feel no shame.  In a marriage, man and wife may become intuitive of each other and grow in intimacy.  Jesus Christ is a Fisher of Men.  A man has authority in his household.  It needs to be lead by the husband.  

I have talked about the allegories between faith and marriage on this blog before.  There is an implied understanding here that "There is more" a man and woman may be able to share with the right frame of mind.  

Addendum -  

Question:  How should a man start?  

You need to fix yourself before you can help anyone else.  A man may need some time alone with God.  Take a week or two.....given a man was already married.....

A man needs to get out of his routine and daily grind, and away from people he is familiar with.  What that looks like may be between a man and God.  

The Holy Ghost is a teacher and a councilor.  There has been a lot on this blog about talking to God.  A man follows directions.  

Question: How many people do you know that have actually developed this?  

Growing up, a lot of my understanding of Church, it was often female lead, with wives dragging their husbands to Church, or people showing up for tradition, and because they thought they should.  Not many people would be developing the relationship discussed here, of Faith.  

In the Old West of American, given a man married a prostitute, he may have made her an "Honest Woman."  Was a woman sweating like a whore in Church?  These are understandings I grew up with, but never really saw in a Church.  A woman in sin, she was made a liar.  She lied to protect her reputation.  Did a man marry a liar?  How many of her lies did he believe?  He may need to make her a......Honest woman.  She needs to have nothing to lie to him about.  That can be rough.  

Was someone a feminist who espoused Christian belief?  That couple hit a big road block in faith.  They gimped themselves, and potentially, everyone around them.  

I am aware that there is more.  There is more a man and woman may experience in a marriage.  Man is meek before God.  Woman meek before her husband.  There is a relationship there.  What I am discussing here isn't political so much as Spiritual.  The type of love someone was receiving in marriage, it may be a reflection of something.  What was a couple reflecting?  

Question:  How does someone not lie?  

To your wife or just in general?  

Previous Post:  "Developing the Power of the Tongue - Potential Barriers" on In God We Trust.

Say nothing.  80% of communication is non-verbal.  Try not talking for awhile.  

Make your words more exact.  I found that I exaggerated a lot.  Some exaggeration may have been needs for attention. Was a man in need of man's approval or Gods?  Words more exact.  

You don't need to emote.  You don't need to tell everyone you meet your life story, and they don't care.  Less is more.  

A lot of people don't understand Omittance. A man's boss gives him a task.  He completes the task.  He reports back.  Holding back crucial information from your boss regarding the task he sent you on, that is omittance.  Given you meet random people on the street, friends, family, or whatever, they are not your boss.  They didn't send you on a task.  You don't need to tell them your life story.  

Are you part of the government, and beholden to a bureaucracy?  You are used to lying a lot.  The bureaucracy expects it.  It is not so much lying as just giving the paper pushers what they need so your life can go on; however, in developing the Power of the Tongue, you can't do that.  Being part of a bureaucratic system where someone was expected to lie, he may go crazy going through Sanctification.  Get a new job? 

People in 33 AD, they didn't have the internet and Facebook.  That may be following you around.  Did you lie on your social media?  You may need to clean that.  Jesus did few miracles in his hometown.  Someone may need to pause or leave some social media where a man's hometown was following him.  

These are some things discovered along the way.  Slow is smooth.  Smooth is fast.