Recently I heard a valentine’s day special interview where an orthopedic surgeon was asked if he could compare his marriage to a bone, which would it be, without batting an eye he replied, the femur. The femur/ thigh bone was the reply because that’s the strongest/largest bone in the body. When I first heard the response, I thought to myself that I too would liken marriage to the same bone. But the more I reflected on this, I realized a greater truth.
Now if I were to liken marriage to a bone then it would be the hip bone. The hip bone is a composite of 3 bones ilium, ischium and pubis which finally fuse after adolescence to make the hip bone. Similarly, the covenant -marriage is a union of not only the husband and the wife but both of them as one in God who unites them.
Another wonderful thing about the hip bone is that all three bones unite at the acetabulum (the cup of the hip joint), they come together in a ‘T’ shaped “triradiate cartilage”. This cartilaginous union of the bones allow the hip and pelvis to grow in size as the child grows and finally fuse once the child stops growing (after adolescence).
The covenant of marriage unites the husband and the wife with Jesus at the cross (T). Just like these bones become one at adolescence, the man & wife become one after marriage.
Genesis 2:24 (AMPC). Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall become united and cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. [Matt. 19:5; I Cor. 6:16; Eph. 5:31-33.]
https://bible.com/bible/8/gen.2.24.AMPC
Just as the hip is what connects the spine to the lower limbs, the united one flesh (after marriage) should link the heaven (vertical) and earth (horizontal).
The hip is also illustrates the Trinity. The 3 bones united to make one hip/pelvis, God the Father, Yeshua the Son and Holy Spirit are 3 distinct personalites but One God.
Deuteronomy 6:4 (AMPC). Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord [the only Lord].
https://bible.com/bible/8/deu.6.4.AMPC
May the oneness of the Trinity inspire our marriages to pursue oneness to become as strong and purposeful as the hip.
God bless.🤗
joyancejames 
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