Godly Success In Marriage

Godly Success in Marriage - Part 4

Belief 4 : Stay committed to your marriage no matter what


Even though you struggle, even though you quarrel, and even though at times you make each other cry, there has to be an underlying and undying commitment to one another. Divorce can never be mentioned in your home. Don’t use it as a threat against your spouse. You will cause tremendous structural damage to your marriage and to your kids if you let that word be batted about.

I remember my mother and father having an argument one time. I went to my mother and talked about it with her. She leaned close to me and said, “Your father and I might have arguments but you never have to worry about us being together. We’re here for the duration.” I still remember that to this day. My house was solid.

If you have ever used the word divorce as a threat, veiled or otherwise, stop reading right now and go beg your spouse’s forgiveness. You have to see it through. Divorce is not an option.

Commitment does not mean that you have to suck it up and be miserable until you die – that’s not biblical commitment. Commitment says, “I’m going to flex and change. I’ll apologise till Christ comes but I will make sure this home stays peaceful.” That’s commitment!


Verses for meditation:

"Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name. So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him. And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. And Adam said:
“This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh;
She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man.”

Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. "(Genesis 2: 19-24).

“And he (Jesus) answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, for this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.” (Matthew 19:4-6).

posted by Lighthouse @ 8:54 AM