What God Has Joined Together...

Fun to note the heart shadow beneath the rings resting on
 1 Corinthians 13!

...let no man put asunder.

Do you believe in marriage?

I think a lot of us would say of course we do...
But then life happens and things get rough and times get tough and the winds of adversity beat on our united front and we begin to thing what am I doing in this situation and it has to be better somewhere else...

From Matthew 19:5,6 we find common words spoken over bazillions of wedded couples:

'Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?  So they are no longer two but one flesh.  What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate."

When life gets hard it calls for grit and guts to hang in there and trust that God will work it all together for good.  Life is definitely difficult today and there is a plethora of egocentric screaming going on in and around each and every one of us!  And when the proverbial honey moon period is over and its time to get down to business and live life, old self-gratification waltzes back into our thinking and the "it is all about me" becomes our song.

As a young mom, emotionally immature and needy I didn't know how to look beyond my own needs when I finally got married with my one son born out of wedlock, I was looking for someone to take care of us.  No faith to sustain me except in myself and my first marriage ended prematurely leaving me with three children that I didn't have a clue how to raise...

My question today is do you think it helps to be a Christian and be in a marital relationship?  Seriously I would love to have your input here...

I just saw and am linking to a good article from Proverbs 31 Ministry's Sharon Glasgow...
http://www.proverbs31.org/devotions/have-and-hold-2013-05/ that will hopefully encourage someone out there!