Yes I am still awake at this ungodly hour. Haven’t slept a wink.
I just read today’s Daily Bread devotional and it really isn’t just about marriage. It is about relationships, those you have with your partner, whoever they may be.
For the longstanding arguments of who is the more powerful sex yada yada yada, and if the husband should listen to his wife or the other way around … it really doesn’t quite matter, does it?
At the end of the day, each individual makes a choice in their life partner and it is simply about making it (read: relationship) work. No one ever said relationships were easy. In fact, they’re crazy to deal with and perhaps at some point in time, we have all wondered why in the world are we doing all this sacrifice etc for this craziness!
It is about mutual respect, love, understanding, and most of all honesty and communication. (I’ve probably missed out some along the way, but you get the idea…)
I especially love D. De Haan’s quote (highlighted in bold).
Do I believe in the sanctity of marriage? Yes I do.
But just like religion isn’t just about the act of attending services at church religiously, marriage certainly isn’t about the signing of the marriage certificate or walking down that aisle in a beautiful gown & smart-looking tuxedo. Religion is about your relationship with your God, just like marriage is about your relationship with your partner. Your attendance at church service will not help you get past the act of murder and the marriage certificate and thousands of dollars tossed into the lovely folio of wedding photographs will not help save a flailing (flailing or failing, either applies) marriage that lacks honesty, communication, love, mutual respect etc …
Heard this on the radio while driving one day and I took it all down because it sounded good.
“Marriage is about moving on from parents and riding on the same boat as your spouse, and uniting in body and soul. It is moving on from the past and creating a new future together.”
Just some thoughts.
Thinking about Daily Bread, I had a really thick peanut butter sandwich for breakfast. Been craving that for a bit now. Yummmyyyyy!
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A man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. —Genesis 2:24
The movie The Princess Bride has a wedding scene in which the marrying minister says, “Marriage . . . is what brings us together today.”
Sometimes it is good to remind ourselves of the grand plan for marriage spelled out in Scripture.
Marriage creates one new family out of two: Adam said, “ ‘This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh . . . .’ Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife” (Gen. 2:23-24).
It provides a pure outlet for a divinely designed desire: “Because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband” (1 Cor. 7:2).
It forms a mutually helpful team: “The heart of her husband safely trusts her . . . . She does him good and not evil all the days of her life” (Prov. 31:11-12).
Marriage God’s way brings a man and a woman together to honor Him and help society. Celebrate marriage for the ways it brings us together in God’s name. —Dave Branon
If men and women yield to God
And of His love partake, The marriage bond that joins two hearts
No power on earth can break. —D. De Haan
God created husband and wife to complement each other.
Source : Our Daily Bread
