The married life

Let's talk about married life and what a commitment that it is. This month at our church for the next three Sundays my wife and I will be teaching a Sunday School class to young married couples that have been married five years or less. The main theme for this class this year is commitment. That is a very big word and I really think that we have lost what it means to be committed to someone in HOLY MATRIMONY. Could it be that we believe that we see a commitment as a contract that can be broken because we don't feel like being in a relationship anymore or because our feelings got hurt. God made a covenant with Abraham in the Bible that he would be the Father of many nations and that the blessings would fall on him. God did not go back on His word but He fulfilled it and keep His promises no matter what Abraham did wrong or the mistakes that he made. God knew the heart of Abraham and He was willing to put His promises on the line for that man. We need to look at a commitment as a covenant (not a contract) that we make because God has lead us to that place and because we want to glorify God in all that we do. A contract can be easily broken without much of a consequence but when you break a covenant that you have made between you and God to be in a marriage with this person then you have major consequences to suffer for that. The married life has never been easy when it is done right. It takes a sacrifice on the part of both parties and most people are too selfish to make those sacrifices in their lives for the people that they marry. God does not make mistakes by putting people together and we hear it said all the time that God put this person in my life but when life gets tough we feel that God changed His mind on who we should be with or should not be with. The only way for a marriage to glorify God is for HIM to be the center of the marriage and all your trust and love are to Him and Him alone.