Marriage is designed by God to be a lifelong covenant, a forever love affair. But how do we keep that covenant from being threatened by another kind of affair? This explosive new series by Ed Young teaches us how to protect our marriages and families from adultery - how to keep the unthinkable from tearing apart the marital love affair.This week our Pastor is starting a new series called "Love Affair." I am excited about any series that has to do with God's word, but this particular one is close to my heart. I have learned Christ wants to be involved in every aspect of our lives, in our homes, our occupations, our children, our friendships, our relationships, in everything, everywhere! We should glorify God in all things, He should be Lord of all.
The very last statement before Christ left earth, was for us to Love the Lord and to Love One Another. The two sum up life for me. If we love the Lord and live to please Him, we cannot help but Love one another and in doing so we experience abundant life. We also fulfill the whole law. Unfortunately I didn't know the two greatest commandments early in my life and I have made many, many mistakes. My husband and I didn't have Christ in our lives when we met. I had heard the truth but didn't know how to apply it or what to do with it.
I honestly believe the devil put us together because our relationship was pure "hell", but God took something very terrible and has made it into something very beautiful, but not before it affected everyone and everything in our lives. But now, it is because of Christ that we have a marriage made in heaven. Christ is the center of our home and our hearts, He is Lord and Master over our lives, and everything and everyone in it. Are we perfect, by no means, but He is perfecting us, He is teaching us. He is molding us into who He created us to be. I love the Lord and I love my husband, I can see the fingerprints of God all over His life. He loves the Lord and is always sharing with someone, today it was at the place where we get our propane, yesterday it was at the school bus barn We have the answer and we are in the middle of our "Love Affair" and enjoying it to the ultimate!! So in saying all of this, what about you?
Have you found the Love of your life? If you are ever in doubt as to whether you have found "true love"......check out what God says in His word about what love is in ...1 Corinthians 13. Here you will find God's view of Love, He is the author of Love! If you are not married, please, please take the time to make a good choice in a lifetime mate. Your life and everyone around you will be affected by this choice. Making the "right choice" for yourself requires you to look objectively at yourself and the person you intend to marry. I didn't do this and thankfully God has changed our lives, but if He hadn't stepped in when He did, it would've been disasterous!!
God wants you to be happy. Take the time to find a good mate for yourself. Allow God to work in you and in someone else so that the two of you can one day be joined into the perfect union that the Father wants for you. You will NEVER REGRET waiting when you find the "RIGHT ONE"!
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posted by Live, Love, Laugh at
1:28 AM
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I completely agree about the "perfect mate," I see so many people rushing into marraige because they think they are in love, or because it's convenient, more money in their pay, or because it's what's expected of them.
I am old for my "rank" (E3), most of them are 18-21 years old, and you would not believe how many of them look at me in pity. YES PITY. "Why aren't you married? Why don't you have kids? No boyfriend either? I am so afraid to turn out like you! I want kids by time I am (insert young age here), I don't want to be an old mother."
I certainly never set out early in life to be single and 28. I was one of the ones who sat in our best friends rooms gazingly envisioning my perfect marraige, with my perfect husband and the perfect kids by time I was 25.
But as we always figure out (and quickly) God has different plans for us, and he has his own timing. I will not give up until I have that perfect union with someone. At this point I have quit worrying about the age, and just embraced God's plan for me. After all a child and a family is a blessing at any age!
Dana, what happened? The fonts are teeny tiny... my eyes, my eyes! :)
Marriage, with the current divorce rate of over 50%, is not the sacred covenant it once was. msthang has hit a lot of it just right; it's for convenience, etc. PreNups? My Lord, ain't that sort of admitting that we're just gonna bail out if things get bad?
*sigh*
beautiful! when we endure doing what God instructs us - like loving when it hurts, He meets us there and has beautiful and abundance waiting for us, in the distance, but He'll take us there if we stay on His path!
A home, and a marriage, built on Godly precepts will be strong. Of course the description of Agape love given in Corinthians is impossible to achieve as we as humans are fallible; however, that makes it no less worth striving for. Honestly since I see almost as many christian couples getting divorces as secular couples I'm left with two thoughts. First claiming christianity doesn't mean you apply Christian principles to your life and second most people emphasize the love aspect and not the commitment aspect. There needs to be an understanding of what it means to take an oath these days. My wife and I thought long and hard before we had Ruths words to Niomi read at our wedding but that is our commitment to each other.
Prenups indeed steelcowboy. That was something else we did on purpose. No prenup, no seperate bank accounts. Make sure that if divorce enters the picture we're totaly vulnerable to working each other over.
I recently did a talk at a mens group about the difference a Godly spouse can make and how important it can be to make sure you mary a Godly women (we have a lot of younger single men in the group) and MsThang has the right attitude. By the way 28 isnt old for what you wan't. My wife and I just had our first child and we're 28. A lot of our friends around the same age still haven't had children or gotten married. You are part of a growing demagraphic.
I would be interested to talk to your husband live,love, laugh. I have a question or two about how he stears his converstions towards Christ in order to witness. If he doesn't mind tossing me an email my address is reffnerc@gmail.com
The Lumpy
Lumpy, I agree with everything you said! I am in no way, shape or form saying that there is anything wrong with being (our) age and in this demographic. Realistically I know that it will be many years down the road before marraige or kids are in the picture since i have to find someone first lol. That again doesn't bother me, I was merely commenting on how my "peers" look at me since they are all young and bright eyed still.
I say 28 or 40, both will be blessings when I get them because I waited.
Good Post mom, I'm excited too about the new series. I'll hat missing Sunday, but I know you'll fill me in, ooh take the camcorder, hee hee just kidding - I may go on Saturday!
Love you!
Cultivating stronger marriages should be a high priority in our society, and yet it's not.
The collapse of marriage and the family structure is happening before our eyes.
Sadly, it is the children that suffer as a result.
My hubby and I have faced many incredibly difficult times in our marriage, but from the start we were committed to each other and to dealing with problems together. We have not gone through our marriage perfectly by any means, but we've been married now for 21 years and I'm every bit as committed to him as I ever was.
I loved Lumpy's comment:
"No prenup, no seperate bank accounts. Make sure that if divorce enters the picture we're totaly vulnerable to working each other over."
My hubby does a lot of teaching on the subject of marriage and has counseled many, many couples.
Marriage today is indeed in trouble.
Good advice ... or should I say, "God's advice." ;)
So many people rush into marriage now with the idea that they'll just leave if they don't like it.
I guess there's a reason I've been single for the last 16 years. I'm getting to the point where I won't settle. If it's not right, I just keep moving on along.
Nice post.
Steel, the fonts shrunk when I posted this. Go figure!
Ordinary Christian, so true! He does meet us there if we only recognize His presence!
Lumpy, I will have my husband send you an email, he loves to talk to anyone about salvation, we bought a piece of land from a guy and he prayed with the guy to receive Christ right after they finalized the contract.
Jamie Dawn, you are so right on, marriage is becoming an endangered species in our world and it is the very foundation of families, no wonder we are having so many problems with children in America!
fts - it's wise to wait on the right person, I remember the pro basketball player, AC Green, he stayed single until he met the right one and doesn't regret it for a moment and many others have done the same, unfortunately some people get married because they are focused on age or what someone else thinks, rathar than making sure it is the right person.
Msthang, good for you to quit worrying, because God holds our future and He knows who the right one is for you, just have to wait until your paths meet. I know many people who waiting until they were thirty and even forty to get married because they didn't meet the right one and many of them could have married sooner if they wanted to just get married!
What an awesome post. I am so filled to overflowing with God's love when reading about others who love Him AND their spouses. My hubby and I serve the Lord together, but a few years ago, our marriage was on the verge of imploding. The Lord took us and made us TOGETHER into something wonderful. He is so amazing.
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