No body seems to know anymore. And this is the problem.
Oh, I'm not going to go into the whole "gay marriage" thing. I've covered that before here, here, here, and here.
No, it dismays me how many people think marriage is about fulfillment, sex, social contrats, or so many other things. It's not.
First, read...
Snowed In | Marriage Isn’t For You
Marriage Isn't For You! I'ts NOT!This aritcle makes a good argument that marriage is FOR your spouse. If you go into it for what it and they can bring to you you are being selfish and the marriage will likely fail.
(but read the next article I post too)
Snowed In | Why “Marriage Isn’t For You” Is Wrong
Oh, I'm not going to go into the whole "gay marriage" thing. I've covered that before here, here, here, and here.
No, it dismays me how many people think marriage is about fulfillment, sex, social contrats, or so many other things. It's not.
First, read...
Snowed In | Marriage Isn’t For You
Marriage Isn't For You! I'ts NOT!This aritcle makes a good argument that marriage is FOR your spouse. If you go into it for what it and they can bring to you you are being selfish and the marriage will likely fail.
(but read the next article I post too)
But that article got it wrong!
That's because marriage isn't for your spouse either. You are both fallible human beings and there is no way on earth all of one person's needs could be met by another human being. The burden of having one person living for making your life better is too great for any human to bear, as the article says.
Marriage is for God.
- It is for Him to use to show the world the relationship Jesus has with the Church.
- It is for Him to use to train tomorrow's spiritual warriors.
- It is His way of caring for women when they are pregnant and nursing and thus less able to care for themselves (and before you start telling me pregnancy shouldn't stop a woman from caring for herself, yes, a woman CAN work in this stage but that doesn't mean she SHOULD. She can put more into making a healthy baby if she doesn't have to worry about the work-a-day world.)
- It is His way of making sure someone is around to care for either a man or woman when they get hurt (Hubby broke his arm last week. His RIGHT arm. As you go about your day, notice how often you use your right arm. Getting dressed for example...)
- It is even his way to make sure there is someone to care for other relatives, neighbors, etc that are ill.
The question must be asked:
Have *Christians* Declared War on Marriage?
We have bought into the world's idea that life ends at the alter. We tell our children "Don't have sex until you marry (biblical) but you must finish school, go to college, set up a career, and really live before you can marry (the world)" This means we are telling our children they must be sexually mature for 15 or more years without having sex! Can we say "mean?"
Anyway, sex aside, this is the world's idea, that marriage is the end of fun and fun is the point of life. The Bible says the point of life is working for God.
Of course, our God being who He is, when we kill our plans of self-fun and follow His plans, He gives us a life ten times as fulfilling as anything we could have come up with on our own!
Honest.
My life, (married at 18, homemaker, 9 children) is SO much more fun, secure and satisfying than anything else I have seen.
We need to look at how we talk to our children about marriage and babies.
Truth be told, we are the cause of most of our problems.
Our society doesn’t know anything about marriage | The Matt Walsh Blog
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