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LOCKED TOGETHER
The first Scripture about marriage in the Bible talks about cleaving to one another. The word cleave in the Hebrew is “dabaq” meaning “to cling, to stick, to stay close, to be joined.” This word is used in other places in the Bible and helps us to understand more of what it means.One of my favorite places is found in Job 41:15-17. It’s in the middle of the passage where God describes Leviathan, this powerful creature that no man can tame. God describes fire leaping out of his mouth and smoke pouring out of his nostrils. Wow, it’s an exciting passage to read to your boys who love dinosaurs!
But in verses 15-17 (GW) God gives this description: “It’s back has rows of scales that are tightly sealed. One is so close to the other that there is no space between them. Each is joined (dabaq) to the other. They are locked together and INSEPARABLE.”
The New English Translation says: “Its back has rows of shields, shut up closely together as with a seal; each one is so close to the next that NO AIR CAN COME BETWEEN THEM. They LOCK TIGHTLY TOGETHER (dabaq), one to the next; they CLING TOGETHER AND CANNOT BE SEPARATED.”
What a beautiful picture of marriage. God wants us to be so one together that not even air can come between us! He wants us to be so tightly locked together that we cannot be separated!
I don’t think this happens immediately. We often come to marriage with an independent spirit. It takes time to throw aside independence and instead to think oneness and live oneness. But this is God’s ultimate picture of marriage. And this is the glory of marriage This is the picture of Christ and His church.
I’m reminded again of the words of John D. Garr who when describing marriage states: “Your ‘twoness’ has ceased to exist.”
Are you so locked together that there is nothing in this life that can separate you?
Blessings today from Nancy Campbell
