{"id":769,"date":"2026-01-18T09:08:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T09:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.namastedigital.co.za\/skm\/?p=769"},"modified":"2026-01-18T09:08:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T09:08:57","slug":"whos-your-daddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.namastedigital.co.za\/skm\/whos-your-daddy\/","title":{"rendered":"Who’s Your Daddy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The importance of knowing who your father is, in marriage.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

I have written my thoughts about family involvement in a marriage in my books, and my standpoint is clear that it must be regulated in terms of their interaction with the married couple. The reason is not spite driven, nor arrogance defined, neither is it standing on the reasoning that the married couple should have nothing to do with their parents. Even if the in-laws come with a high level of toxicity, they are still family and can never be undone of that position.<\/p>\n

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But like I alluded to in my first book, The Enemy at the Gates of your Marriage, <\/i>the devil will pounce on any opportunity presented to him to enter a marriage and disrupt the peaceful and blissful rhythm the couple have crafted into become a default setting for their lives. Such opportunity for breach can come even through parents, as nice as they may be or as toxic as they present themselves to be. So you will be wondering then about just why it is that I headlined this blog about \u2018fathers in Marriage.\u2019 <\/i>Well, these fathers have nothing to do with any earthly family connection. They are rather, the spiritual fathers who are an ever-present reality in marriage.<\/p>\n

God, our heavenly father established Himself to be the presiding father over creation that He brought into existence.<\/p>\n

When the man and woman stood as living, breathing beings, He established Himself as their Father. They had no other but Him. He brought them together in marriage to each other, establishing Himself again as the father over their marriage. Them being the first, serving as the prototype of all humanity to follow, meant that God will eternally be the father over marriage until the end of the earth Age. God\u2019s position as the architect of, and supreme oversight over marriage is thus unchallenged. It is His Order, belonging to Him exclusively. He is thus the unopposable, un-substitutable Father of Marriage.<\/p>\n

But there stands another, diametrically in opposition to Him and all that He has created and all that He has purposed. This other is also a father. If God is the father of marriage, then this other is the father of marriage dissolution. This other is the devil, the \u201cfather of lies\u201d. His modus operandi from the beginning has been a simple one \u2013 oppose everything that is divine, and substitute it with a lie that is palatable. The devil operates by this method \u2013 tell a lie in place of the truth in order to deceive and lead astray. I am astounded at how successful he has been in this quest, not at those with no knowledge of his workings who have fallen easily for his lies, but at those who claim to have the knowledge of him, yet still yielded to his offerings of lies and allowed themselves to be led astray.<\/p>\n

It is a deeply unsettling thing to see Christians, people who claim to know and follow Christ, practise divorce that is like that tree in the garden. The first husband and wife were given a strict command to not be found anywhere near the tree. Husbands and wives in Christ should never be found anywhere near being associated with divorce. Why would I say this? Jesus said; \u201cThose who say, \u201cI love God\u201d and hate their brothers or sisters, are liars\u201d <\/i>Did you hear that? Liars! <\/b>Should it not stand out as the epitome of hypocrisy when this is found in marriage? Is there not something terribly wrong and misplaced when Christians, yes those who claim to love God and follow Christ passionately, have no problem hating their spouse with an intensity that drives them to divorce themselves from them, and yet still say \u201cI love God\u201d <\/i><\/i><\/p>\n

A marriage of husband and wife to each other does not stand anywhere near the relationship of brother to sister and vice versa. It is a far higher Order of relationship, one that carries within it Divine essence and Divine connection. So if claiming to love God, but hating brother or sister made one a liar, just how much worse did claiming to love God, yet hating one\u2019s spouse make that person in God\u2019s sight?<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a lesson we should learn. When it comes to truth, Christ is not \u2018meek and mild\u2019, and God is not \u2018understanding\u2019 of our position to bend it. You either follow Him as Your Father, and you do so without compromise to His laws and commands, or you follow the father of lies. God is the father of marriage. The devil makes himself a father in marriage. You must know whose you are, and to whom you belong.<\/p>\n

Simeon Karl Montague <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The importance of knowing who your father is, in marriage. I have written my thoughts about family involvement in a marriage in my books, and my standpoint is clear that it must be regulated in terms of their interaction with the married couple. The reason is not spite driven, nor arrogance defined, neither is it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healing","category-hope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namastedigital.co.za\/skm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namastedigital.co.za\/skm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namastedigital.co.za\/skm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namastedigital.co.za\/skm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namastedigital.co.za\/skm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.namastedigital.co.za\/skm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":770,"href":"https:\/\/www.namastedigital.co.za\/skm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions\/770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namastedigital.co.za\/skm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namastedigital.co.za\/skm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namastedigital.co.za\/skm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namastedigital.co.za\/skm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}