Corona Devo 1146

Marriage—is it worth it to stay?  It depends on who you ask, and who is providing the instruction.

Till death do us part?

Really? 

Isn’t that whole way-of-thinking (and compromising) in marriage a little outdated and even incorrect?

It depends who you ask.  Or…who is providing the instruction.

Sometimes it’s hard to know what to do in a situation, and sometimes we are taught, modeled, and assimilated into the wrong answers and definitions for situations, such as marriage. 

I am saddened and disgusted (and broken, frustrated, angry and emboldened) to learn what some public education institutions are teaching these days, but this makes it all the more critical for us (and our young people) to know/be taught/STUDY about what God says in the Bible in reference to how to live life, and (in these Scriptures), how to proceed in marriage.

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We learn about marriage from the people around us.  Some good, some bad.  My mom used to say that “Marriage is work every day”, and (now that I am married) I have learned that she was absolutely correct. 

We also learn about marriage from society, culture, trends and (apparently) in (public) school instruction.  Our son is taking the most advanced social studies offering at the 10th grade level, Advanced Placement United States History (APUSH).  Their curriculum this week included addressing marriage (and babies) in this way:

 Marriage—is it worth it to stay?  As we have seen and heard, and even lived…it depends who you ask, and who is providing the instruction.

Good news…no great news…we also can learn and be instructed about marriage by God, through the Bible.

But for those who are married, I have a command that comes not from me, but from the Lord. A wife must not leave her husband. (11) But if she does leave him, let her remain single or else be reconciled to him. And the husband must not leave his wife.  

(12) Now, I will speak to the rest of you, though I do not have a direct command from the Lord. If a fellow believer has a wife who is not a believer and she is willing to continue living with him, he must not leave her. 

(13) And if a believing woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is willing to continue living with her, she must not leave him. 

(14) For the believing wife brings holiness to her marriage, and the believing husband brings holiness to his marriage. Otherwise, your children would not be holy, but now they are holy. 

(15) (But if the husband or wife who isn’t a believer insists on leaving, let them go. In such cases the believing husband or wife is no longer bound to the other, for God has called you to live in peace.) 

(16) Don’t you wives realize that your husbands might be saved because of you? And don’t you husbands realize that your wives might be saved because of you?  ~I Corinthians 7:10-16

Marriage—is it worth it to stay?  It depends on who you ask, and who is providing the instruction.

Here is God’s instruction.  I have no further advice, but none is needed. 

Some of us needed to be taught what God’s Word instructs about marriage today. 

We certainly have been taught many contradictory things in relation to marriage. 

And I know that one size does not fit all in this topic of marriage.  I know we each have circumstances, variables, complications, hardships and hurts.  I know that our world is broken.  We are broken.  Some of our marriages are broken. 

So-even when it doesn’t feel worth it…Marriage—is it worth it to stay? 

It depends on who you ask, and my money and my marriage is on God.

Don’t you wives realize that your husbands might be saved because of you? 

And don’t you husbands realize that your wives might be saved because of you?   ~I Corinthians 7:16

 

Blessings,

sarah

https://sarahsundy04.blogspot.com

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