Make your affection beneficial, Cleric tasks couple

Ven. Emmanuel Omotade, a cleric at St. Andrew’s Church, Uso, in Ondo State, has tasked a couple to be practical in their love for each other.

Omotade gave the task during the wedding ceremony involving Miss Dorcas Oluwabusola and Mr Paul Oluwabunmi at Uso in Owo Local Government Area of the state, on Saturday.

Reading from the Book of Genesis, Chapter two, verse 18 and the Book of Colossians 3, verses 12 to 19, Omotade also urged husbands to make their matrimonial homes convenient for their wives.

He said that the love professed by husbands must not be abandoned in the course of marriage.

“Let your love for your wife be practical. Husband must make his wife convenient in that marriage by all means since she has left her parents.

Love her and let the love cover all sins. Let your mind be easily appeased. Accommodate each other since your habits differ. Forgive each other and let peace of God reign and rule in you,” he said.

The cleric also urged wives to give honour to their husbands and husbands to love their wives the way they love themselves.

Omotade appealed to those of marriageable age to seek God in prayer for their respective partners, adding that living alone was not God’s purpose for anybody.

“God’s thought in His mercy said Adam needed somebody like him to be his companion.

“Living alone is not good. It’s not God’s purpose. God is the architect of marriage. He created the institution. And we must follow the laid down rules diligently. God is the actual witness of marriage.

“Marriage is for companionship, mutual joy, enjoyment and procreation,” he said.

The cleric, who urged the new couple to free themselves from undue interference from third parties, advised them to use the Bible as their guide at all times.