He told me to tell you that
Ihave a friend and he’s a really bad dude. If you Googled his name a lot of bad stuff will come up on your computer screen, I know because I did it and I was surprised at all the things I didn’t know my friend had done.
To be honest it scared me and if you read it you wouldn’t like my friend very much.
As I read story after story about sin after sin (my friend’s a Christian BTW) I was shaking my head. Then I thought about his wife and I thought why are they still married, why does she hang around such a loser and then the light bulb went off—it’s because God tells us to.
Our culture has forgotten that marriage is for life (one out of two marriages ends in divorce). When I was 18 I left my mother and father and married the Blonde, we became one flesh (Genesis 2:24), one bank account (she had all the money), one car (I had the car, 1975 avocado green Old’s Cutlass), one rent payment ($150 a month for a garage apartment on Bowser Street) and it was good.
We went to an ordination service last week, a young man was getting ordained into the gospel ministry. One of the exam questions was about are there any grounds for divorce. The ministerial candidate said, “Yes, abandonment and adultery.” That smells like smoke and comes from the pit of Hell, God hates divorce (Malachi 2:16) and what God puts together no man should separate (Mark 10:9).
I’m sorry I should have warned you I was going to preach and tick you off. Why does how we treat marriage frustrate God so much? Because it’s His idea…He designed it and He gets to define it. Marriage is the picture of the covenant God has with His church (Hebrews 9:15) and the covenant is an unbreakable commitment. That and it totally screws up the holidays (ha).
Getting back to my friend, his wife shouldn’t get an award, what she’s doing is normal for the Christian. Marriage is not perfect because the people in the marriage are not perfect. In all of our relationships we practice forgiveness, mercy and grace - we love because He first loved us (1st John 4:19) and gave us this pattern of how to treat people, regardless if we are married to them or not.
Listen, if you are in a “bad” marriage, hang in there, people do change. I know I’m not that 18 year old kid Jennifer used to put up with. He told me to tell you that.
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