Marriage As Crisis
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The time of marriage is a time of crisis. We usually associate the word "crisis" with something unfortunate. This is not necessarily true. It refers to something very important in one's life -- and in this case -- something very good. It is a crisis in that it is perhaps the most important decision and transaction you will ever make.
Two people, from different environments, with different personalities and natures, are deciding to walk intimately together through the rest of their lives. Together they are to face its conflicts as well as its moments of peace, its sufferings and sorrows as well as its joys, its failures as well as its successes. Statistics prove that it is a hazardous journey with pitfalls along the road, and a large percentage of such relationships are terminated by such pitfalls even before they are well launched.
The blessing of God upon your relationship at this, the first step of your marriage, is a good beginning, but it is by no means a guarantee that your relationship will be a successful one. There is only one guarantee: it is that you walk with God, dedicating yourselves individually and mutually to him and his will for your lives. The point is, you can't go this alone and hope to find perpetual happiness. You need God's help -- and perhaps the help of qualified advisors that he may place in your path.
As you commit yourselves to each other -- for better or for worse -- commit yourselves totally and wholly to God and his purposes. You will find him sufficient for this glorious crisis of marriage, and for all the unhappy crises that may come your way.
Two people, from different environments, with different personalities and natures, are deciding to walk intimately together through the rest of their lives. Together they are to face its conflicts as well as its moments of peace, its sufferings and sorrows as well as its joys, its failures as well as its successes. Statistics prove that it is a hazardous journey with pitfalls along the road, and a large percentage of such relationships are terminated by such pitfalls even before they are well launched.
The blessing of God upon your relationship at this, the first step of your marriage, is a good beginning, but it is by no means a guarantee that your relationship will be a successful one. There is only one guarantee: it is that you walk with God, dedicating yourselves individually and mutually to him and his will for your lives. The point is, you can't go this alone and hope to find perpetual happiness. You need God's help -- and perhaps the help of qualified advisors that he may place in your path.
As you commit yourselves to each other -- for better or for worse -- commit yourselves totally and wholly to God and his purposes. You will find him sufficient for this glorious crisis of marriage, and for all the unhappy crises that may come your way.
