Two Shall Be One
by Marsha Iddings
Ephesians 5:25, 31 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;... For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
As I have watched the eagles, I have been amazed at how both parents work together as a team. In the early days before the eggs were hatched both parents took their turn sitting on the eggs while the other either hunted and brought food back or sat as a look out on the branch not far from the nest.
When the babies were hatched, they still took turns sitting on the little ones to keep them warm and the one not sitting would hunt and bring back food. Often both parents worked as a team feeding their young. They seemed to know exactly what it meant to work together as one. One day as they were feeding the babies, they even fed each other!
What a wonderful example we have in nature of how a marriage should work. Both husband and wife are to come together as one flesh not only in the physical union of marriage but as husband and wife working together for a common goal.
If the father eagle had decided after the eggs were laid to go do his own thing, the mother eagle would have been forced by hunger to leave the nest to find food for herself. The eggs would have gotten too cold and would never have hatched. God designed it that they should work as a team and so he has designed human marriage to be the same.
We have much to learn from the eagles who know nothing of marriage or God's design for it, yet so well illustrate how it should work out practically. Only God could design this into His creation. It couldn't just happen without a design planned into it by Him.
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