Archives for September 2009 | Preparing for the Marriage of a Lifetime

WEDNESDAY’S MARRIAGE BOOSTER

September 30th, 2009 admin

“TEXT OR CALL YOUR SPOUSE TODAY JUST TO SAY ‘I LOVE YOU.’”

TUESDAY’S MARRIAGE BOOSTER

September 29th, 2009 admin

“DO A TASK TODAY FOR YOUR SPOUSE THAT THEY USUALLY DO FOR YOU.”

So you are probably wondering “What the heck does that title mean”? Let me unpack it for you. Have you ever gone to the cafeteria around 4:30 in the afternoon and almost gotten run over by the parade of couples driving “land yachts”? Those people are my marriage heroes. Many of them are the ones that have weathered year after year of marriage and now at the ripe old age of eighty are able to come to Luby’s for an early evening dinner and hold hands throughout the process. So, I have often wondered, how over a fifty year time span they got from the altar to the cafeteria? Just what are the steps they took?

This “Five Steps to Luby’s” is the working title of my new book and I want to explore some things here with you. For a long time I have been greatly troubled by the fact that the divorce rate for Christian couples is the same as the divorce rate for non-Christian couples. That just does not seem right. If we follow the God who created marriage in the first place and read His Book that tells us how to live fulfilling lives, why do we mess it up so badly. He calls us to be light in a dark world and realistically our light is often on “dim” or “off”. We attend a marriage seminar or hear a great sermon on marriage. We commit to do better and to try harder but it is short lived. In fact, we often “throw it up” in the parking lot going from the seminar or the sanctuary to our car. Then we are even more frustrated and dejected than before. We wish we had never heard about making our marriage better because all it did was raise expectations. And so the story goes for far to many Christian marriages. We know we should be different but we are not and half of us end up standing before a judge ending a marriage that we promised God would last a life time. If we find someone else, the story often repeats itself. In fact, eighty percent of second marriage fail.

But be of good cheer! Jesus tells us we will have troubles in this life and that He has overcome them all. Somewhere in this book we call God’s Word are the answers. We just do not do a very good job of finding them and letting them transform us into who God wants us to be.

Join me as we explore God’s plan for marriage. Join me as we seek an answer that will make the world turn and notice. Join me as we turn our light on as bright as it will go. Join me as we let God drive the divorce rate for Christians to ZERO! Join me as we walk the five steps to Luby’s.

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