Most couples spend more time and money planning for their wedding than they do preparing for their marriage. Most couples spend more time making kids than they do learning how to raise a family. Divorce is the opt out policy if things don't go our way. FIGHT for your marriages... As the family goes, so goes society.
"By wisdom a house is built,
and through understanding it is established;
through knowledge its rooms are filled
with rare and beautiful treasures." Proverbs 24:3-4
Marriage by itself cannot make you happy. If you're unhappy or lonely in your marriage or singleness, you need a check up in the worst way. When a couple treats their marriage like a friendship, the word "submission" is not in their vocabulary. Don't expect marriage to do for you what only God can do for you. Be realistic. Only God can satisfy your loneliness. But Chad, "I need romance. I'm trying but my spouse refuses to get help." Can I just say, friendship is the gateway to intimacy. Sit down and figure out how to be friends and then work on the marriage part. Romance, as great as it is, cannot sustain a marriage like a friendship can. Lust looks for ways to get, while love looks for ways to give.
"God loved the people of this world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who has faith in him will have eternal life and never really die." John 3:16 (CEV)
What are you willing to give or give up? Which describes you better, "Love" or "Lust"?
Chad O
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