LEAVING SELF BEHIND

Read: 1 CORINTHIANS 7:3-4

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Bible in a year: Numbers 21-22

The message of the Apostle Paul in today's reading is indeed about sexual life in marriage. However, the message actually also speaks about something broader, more fundamental, and more decisive for marriage life. What is it?

"The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife." The Apostle Paul does not mean to say that in marriage, husbands and wives do not have authority over themselves and do not have the right to make decisions for themselves. The Apostle Paul knows well that husbands and wives have autonomy, and have the right to make their own decisions. However, the Apostle Paul advises that with that autonomy and right, husbands and wives decide and are determined to give themselves to their partners in such a way that the wife's priority is no longer herself, but her husband, and the husband's priority is no longer himself, but his wife.

In other words, the Apostle Paul advises that husbands and wives leave themselves behind, that is, to kill the desire to prioritize themselves, and replace it with a determination to prioritize their partners. This applies not only in sexual life, but in all aspects of marriage life.

Is that burdensome? Ah, it's not about heavy or light, but about love. Without love, everything will be burdensome, even impossible. However, if true love exists, leaving self behind is something that will be joyfully lived.

Then happiness approaches. --EE/www.renunganharian.net

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TRUE LOVE SHIFTS EVERY DESIRE TO PRIORITIZE ONESELF AND REPLACES IT WITH A WILLINGNESS TO LEAVE SELF BEHIND.

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