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Marriages don’t last…
I’ve come to the conclusion that marriage or the Covenant of marriage is under attack. It seems that more than ever before husbands and or wives are giving up instead of fighting for the marriage. This is a serious issue in our current culture.
Why is it that people are giving up in this modern day culture? Why are people failing to see the value of fighting for marriage?
Deception! We are fighting a fight with God’s enemy. Satan is hell bent on destroying the Covenant relationship. The Covenant of marriage is a beautiful thing and in its proper place and order in proper alignment with the Covenant we have with God the Father through Jesus Christ’s incredible gift on calvary, we can find the beauty of what God intended for us.
Love is being willing to lay down one’s life for someone else. In a marriage we are going to find that our mate isn’t always doing things we like and certainly aren’t always easy to love. It’s not the actions we need to love. If we base our decisions to love based on what they do instead of loving them because we decide it’s the right thing to do we will always be on a roller coaster ride that feels like it will never end.
The apostle Paul tells us in the first letter the the church of Corinth in chapter 13 verses 4 to 8 love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; its not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it’s not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing., but it rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things; believes all things hopes all things; endures all things. Love never ends.
Imagine this being you he’s describing. Speak this with your name in each line. Now do the same for your spouse. Do you see how powerful this is? This is what we are called to do. We are called to do this for our spouse and others.
If you find yourself contemplating your future with your spouse, stop and consider what did Jesus do for you and me? He gave everything on the cross on Golgotha. He said in his dying breath Father forgive them for they know not what they do. We are called to lay down our rock like he convinced the men looking to stone the woman found in sexual sin. He wants us to lay down our Grievances toward one another and leave our incredible baggage at the cross for him to carry. Then pickup our cross realizing that it’s gonna hurt and follow him.
Oh, that’s not a popular statement is it? Everyone wants to believe when you come to Jesus it’s going to be rainbows and unicorns, but that’s never promised to us. We are promised that we will see trouble and we will have sorrow but that joy comes in the morning. We are promised that if we follow him we can have peace that passes all understanding.
So what are you waiting for? Focus on staying healthy in your relationship but if you’ve messed up and everyone does. Forgive and help your spouse find their way back to repentance and restoration with Christ Jesus. This is the message of the Gospel. I’m so glad to know and be able to walk in this and I hope this helps someone stay and stand for their marriage just like me. It’s worth it to fight. God’s already won. I know…
I read the end of the story. You can too.
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62 Replies
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Very true and what you described is the fact of life, Bill. Whether it’s a partnership, friendship, or marriage, it takes two to make it work. We are supposed to be God loving, compassionate good people. We are here on This Earth 🌎 and God gave each of us one life. During the life we were blessed, we were taught to respect elders, treat others like we want to be treated, study hard and get good grades so you can get a good job, help the less fortunate, don’t lie, don’t take what’s not yours, be generous, be forgiving, and try to be a good person. We are all on this Earth because God gave us one life to be the best we can be reaching success. Everyone’s definition of success is different. A postman can consider he reached success after working 20 years and earned his pension of $3,000 for the rest of his life. Others consider success in other ways such as making many millions and when they reached that goal they keep going because they feel they need to set another bar for success. The good die young. Once you reached your own success and have become the perfect 🥰 human being, it’s time to leave this Earth 🌎 and go home to our eternal home to the house of God. You will not reach success and go to Heaven if you have not corrected your weaknesses and faults in life. You don’t learn if you don’t mistakes. Education is not learning from people’s success. Education is learning from your mistakes and faults and other people’s mistakes. You learn by trying not to make the same mistakes twice. Why is the divorce rates exceeding 55%. Divorce can be greatly reduced if both parties become involved in making it work and honoring their vows in sickness and in health to care for each other until they grow old and die together. Greed, selflessness, deceit is the roots of all evil. Outside friends and family have no business influencing the parties involved. Those who do are hypocrites and evil. All I can say is I know you and you are a good person Bill. Stay away from negative energy and those who want to cause trouble or take advantage of your generosity. Everyone does deserve a second chance at the very least. If someone who made a mistake and realizes they did wrong, they do deserve a chance before termination of the relationship. If a second chance is not granted, maybe you guys were not meant to be. God’s got a reason for everything. God takes care of good people and the good guys always wins. 🙏 You are your own worst enemy so don’t go the path of Satan and stay focused. Have the WTF attitude, be a good caring person, do more giving versus taking,and always see the positives in people. Take your parents on vacation and live life.
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Bill, hope you have a better day today, my friend. 🙏
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Had a great day thanks.
I picked up 5 new clients and 2 new downline.
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WOW!!! Thanks for the message. Makes all the sense in the world. Inspiring and very true 👍
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People should not get married. Things get ruined after marriage. Why ruin a good relationship by getting married
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I feel for you Brother. Men never learn. I am married third time and am miserably not happy.
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By the way, don’t waste your time thinking about the past. Concentrate in the future and start making new people and disown the former people who have been in the past.
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In general, you are who you hang out with. If you hang out with drunks, you will be a drunk. If you hang out with low esteem individuals, you will become one. If you hang out with whiners where its other peoples fault when things go wrong, you will become a member of the whiner group. If you have out with winners, you will be one. Go getters, you will be one. Bottom line is have the WTF attitude, don’t have anyone shit on your day, and at the end of the night, you can say you had a great day and I am going to have a better day in the morning. No need to sleep over negative people. Stay away from negative energy and always be grateful of being able to wake up every morning and look forward to a great positive day.
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Congratulations, Bill Burger-King, my man. The man. Heard news that you are the man with the lady friend you met at a senior living facility. That is great. Age is blond. The best of luck brother.
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What happened?
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Don’t know. Bill’s post seems ambigous and difficult to decipher. There is several theories you can go to. Both great or WTF Bill. Since it is a public forum, I need to keep my theories under lock and key. Bill should respond. Until then, take care.
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Life lessons Hector. It’s interesting how everyone’s stories are really much the same in the end.
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I feel bad for you Bill. The same type of situation happened to my brother Jake. God Bless
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Thank you, God bless you and your brother.
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