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I went to Christianbook.com and did a search for books about marriage. It returned a list of 3,192 including these titles:
- The Love Dare
- Fireproof Your Marriage
- Your Marriage and the Internet: Untangling Web Addictions and Fantasies
- Communication: Key to Your Marriage
- Now You're Speaking My Language: Honest Communication and Deeper Intimacy for a Stronger Marriage
- The 10 Commandments of Marriage: The Do's and Don'ts for a Lifelong Covenant
- The Total Marriage Makeover-A Proven Plan to Revolutionize Your Marriage
Then get out your Bible and turn to 1 Corinthians Chapter 13. God tells us how to love our spouses ... and our children, and our parents, and our neighbors, and our enemies. We don't need a special language or new man-made commandments or a forty-day challenge. We just need to meditate on God's Word ... and then apply it.
Love is patient,
love is kind and is not jealous;
love does not brag and is not arrogant,
does not act unbecomingly;
it does not seek its own,
is not provoked,
does not take into account a wrong suffered,
does not rejoice in unrighteousness,
but rejoices with the truth;
bears all things,
believes all things,
hopes all things,
endures all things.
love is kind and is not jealous;
love does not brag and is not arrogant,
does not act unbecomingly;
it does not seek its own,
is not provoked,
does not take into account a wrong suffered,
does not rejoice in unrighteousness,
but rejoices with the truth;
bears all things,
believes all things,
hopes all things,
endures all things.
(1 Corinthians 13:4-7)
4 comments:
Sometimes I think that we see what is on TV and read about Hollywood marriages and somewhere in between the perfect sitcom 30 minute solution to a problem and the disgrace that is a Hollywood marriage, we seem to think our marriages are doomed to fail and in some sick way, we WANT our marriages to fail so we can be like Hollywood and go to counseling or complain to our friends or whatever.
I love my husband. There are things we can do better in our marriage and we both know that. We don't need a self-help book.
Great post!
Nice post. :D I concur.
I also think of the Ten Commandments as the greatest recipe for success, in this world and in the one to come. I think this scripture in 1 Corinthians is like the "thought and intent" of the Commandments.
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Great post. I agree with you.
If Christians so desperately help in marriage, to the point where the problem is epidemical, I think that itself should be proof that we need the real and living Gospel to be a part of our lives. Because when it comes down to it, this guideline from 1 Corinthians is more or less a description of the nature of God Himself.
According to 1 John, those who are of God have been perfected in love, because God is love.
The American Gospel requires little more than confessing Christ with the mouth. But the meaning of faith, and GOD saving a man seems to have become a lost concept to so many.
If we could learn to grasp that and apply that, I think we would see great change in our lives and homes.
But like you said, it's not gonna be the endless reading of self-help books that make that happen. Only the study of the Scriptures.
Thanks, all, for your comments and for participating. I've gotten so I really look forward to seeing what's on everybody's minds.
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