Happily Ever After

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.Hebrews 13:4

Today is our 46th wedding anniversary. Marriages take work. Many don’t realize that and bail out or have affairs or overspending and debt ruins marriage.Also drug or alcohol addiction is a killer of marriage too.  Remember it is the children who ultimately suffer. 

This devotion not meant to guilt you if your marriage or marriages did not work out but to let you know God heals wounds and broken hearts and other issues in life and sometimes he restores a broken marriage and the couple remarries. He offers restoration and forgiveness. 

Love and respect is what it takes. Kindness and putting the other first. Being honest, I certainly am not perfect and have much to learn. But marriages are to be celebrated. If you can have devotions together that probably would help too. Anyway man and woman are to put God in the center of the marriage and if they forget this element it is tragic for them and for any children they have. Run your race to win with your wife or husband along side you. 

PRAYER: Thank you for freedom and for the gift of marriage. Society tried to say marriage could be for same sex couples and we allowed it to be cemented into law. Forgive those who are confused or rebellious. Set their hearts free. In Jesus’ name. Amen. 

NOTE-

The following is copied from Crosswalk. It helps me maybe will help you as well:

Father, help me to be the [husband/wife] you have intended me to be. Show me where I need to improve. Help me to be a better communicator, help me to love my [husband/wife] better, and help us both to grow closer to You and to each other. In Your presence, we renew our wholehearted choice to love. Bless this holy commitment with courage, strength, tenacity—and most of all joy! With You, we can build a successful marriage. In Your name, Amen.

Note- many never had a good example of a great marriage in their childhood. Ask God to help if this is your case.