I Do

Quotes:
"Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry."
-Tom Mullen
"Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers bithdays and the other never forgets them."
-Ogden Nash
"What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how much you deal with incompatability."
-Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Scriptures:
"Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, 'This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; so she will be called woman, for she was taken out of man.' For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh."
-Genesis 2:22-24 (NIV)

"Commit your way to the Lord...."
-Psalms 37:5a (NIV)

"The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had it's foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house and it fell with a great crash."
-Matthew 7:25-27 (NIV)

"For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her"
-Ephesians 5:23-25 (NIV)

Today is my two year anniversary to the love of my life and best friend. I recognize that I am nowhere near being a good enough spouse to lecture anybody about marriage but none the less I feel inspired to call the people of God to a close Godly relationship with their spouse. If there is one thing I know about marriage it is that there is great attack upon it in our society today. Marriages are falling apart all around us and it just seems okay. As you read above in Genesis the idea of marriage was God's. It is not coincidental that man longs for a woman or that a woman longs to be with a man. It was God's idea...he created it and if he created it then he can maintain it. A marriage built on the rock can hold. Commit your way to the Lord and your marriage can prosper! God promises us that. I know that it isn't always easy but Jesus can complete the work he started in your marriage. Decide today, as you can control, to love your wife or husband and submit....in these things you will both discover the plan of God for your marriage and house...STRONG!