When one ties the knot, get hitched, or simply gets married he or she becomes one and now belongs to his/hers partner till death separates them; though there has been a escalation of divorces these last days. The bible tells us that the owner of the body is now the person one marries (1Cor. 7:4). Marriage is about pleasing your spouse and dedicating ones self to him/her. We can serve others and help many people, but our primary duty is to our spouse. So, it is within ourselves; we in a sense are married to ourselves. Today, more and more people are dedicating themselves to pampering themselves and dedicating time to the self. The self is becoming the primary focus in life. So, we can serve God and go to church, but not to much else we will commit adultery against ourselves. Unless, we die we cannot commit to Christ one hundred percent as if we were married to him.
Romans 7:2-4
2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
Before we can become devoted spouses to Christ, we must die; the husband/wife part in us. John said that he must increase and I must decrease, stating that in the relationship between me and me has to lower and between Christ and me has to be at a rise (Jh3:30). Like in a relationship which there is a lot of giving of self, so in Christ there must be a steady increase of self giving, unless we are still married to the self. Paul said that our old man must be crucified with Christ else we will continue to serve him (Ro.6:6). In relationships that have had many years together, character traits and behaviors are adapted by each party. In order to make new relationship work each party have to put away those old behaviors. When we are working on a relationship with Christ Paul tells us that we have to put away those behaviors from the previous relationship (Ep. 4:22). He “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new”(2Cor5:17). It is a fruit of marriage to Christ wherewith we are dead to the old and burring those deeds, we bring fruit to God. That is where accepting Jesus Christ as our Lord and savior becomes our engagement to him and baptism is a symbol of marriage (Ro.6:4).