Love Completes Each Other

If two lie down together they keep warm, but how can one be warm alone? – Ecclesiastes 4:11

Be willing to act alone if necessary, it is always better when it is not just a solo performance.
Love can function on its own if there is no other way, but there is a “more excellent way” 1 Corinthians 12:31.

And love dares not to stop loving before it gets there.

This “completing” aspect of love was revealed to mankind from the beginning. God originated the human race with a male and a female – two similar but complementary designs meant to function in harmony.

Our natures and temperaments provide balance, enabling us to more effectively complete the tasks at hand. Having children and raising them to health and maturity. Where one is weak, the other is strong; when one needs building up, the other is equipped to enhance and encourage. We multiply one another’s joys and divide one another’s sorrows.

“Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labour. For if either of them falls, the one will lift up their companion. But woe to the one who falls where there is not another to lift him up” Ecclesiastes 4:9, 10 Neither is quite complete without the other.

God made wives to complete their husbands, and He gives them insight that in many cases is kept from their men. If this discernment is ignored, it is often to the detriment of the man making the decision. The effectiveness of your marriage is dependent upon both of your working together.

Do you have big decisions to make about your finances or retirement planning?

Are you having a real problem with a co-worker who’s getting harder and harder to deal with, and you are grappling with the appropriate action to take?

Are you absolutely convinced that your educational choices for the children are right, no matter what your spouse thinks?

Joined together, you are greater than your independent parts. You need each other. You complete each other.

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