The building block of any society is the family. The best thing in every nation is for the family unit to be successful. The happier marriages we have, the more emotionally stable individuals (children and adults) we’d have in the community, and the stronger we would be as a people.
In marriage, the daily experiences of the two individuals as they live their lives together are meant to knit them into one. They become lost in each other. When others interact with them afterward, they do not see two different individuals, but one person manifested in two people. I pray that every individual will have this glorious experience. This is not always the case. Why do marriages fail?
If you are about to get married, take time to consider carefully what you are getting into. Marriage is not about the legality of sex, it is not about social status, it is not just about the innermost desire to be loved and to love, rather, marriage is an event that can change everything about you. It can make your future glorious and it can mar all you ever achieved.
If you are married, you must have realized how difficult it is to change another individual and how often it is that we discover new things about ourselves and our spouses that we never knew existed. You might be having difficulties or experiencing bliss but are you obvious of your personal role in it all and how the whole experience is changing who you are? May you succeed in your marriage.
Why are there forces, both internal and external competing against your marriage? The reason is simple: There is power, potent power, in successful marriages. Such power can transform a whole nation because the individuals that emerge from that family achieve great things.
“Again I say unto you, that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father who is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”
Mathew 18:19-20
Yes, there is so much power in the union of Marriage. That potent power must be preserved and harnessed by those who want their marriage to survive. The man and the woman must take personal responsibility for their union.
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
Ecclesiastes 4:9
To succeed in your marriage, let both of you, I mean each of you decide to put in 100% of the required effort. Do not deceive yourself by putting in 50% and expect your spouse to put in 50%. Marriage requires 100% input by both parties.
Be willing to serve each other out of respect for Christ.
Ephesians 5:21 ERV
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