This is a small excerpt from the first chapter of my book, “We’re Getting Married Forever” from the chapter titled, “Why Forever?” I hope you will be inspired and encourage and if you want to read more you can order my book here.

Nothing hits a person like a smackdown reality check, especially when people of faith discover that we are gravely misrepresenting God and the Gospel of Christ in marriage. Marriage is symbolic of the body of Christ for those who are Christians. When we uphold God’s principles of marriage, it is to us a fountain of blessings. Friends and family support the bride and groom as they unite their lives and celebrate the mystery of becoming one flesh. God knew this would not be easy and has given us spiritual tools, like prayer and His Word, to guide us. We would need a supernatural ability to go through the ups and downs, mountains, and valleys of becoming “one flesh.”

One of those mountains is to get through our preconceived notions, stereotypes, and expectations of what we each have assumed marriage is. We would have to develop a Christ-like heart to forgive and endure as we go through the years of letdowns, put-downs, heartbreaks, egos, pride, and the many evils that our sinful nature creates as we undergo the days, weeks, years, and decades of marriage. The bride and groom will go through all the months of wedding planning, spending money to make everything perfect and preparing their bodies to look their best on that particular day. Does it make sense to abandon your marriage

at the first sign of trouble?

That is not what God had in mind for the marriage He created in the Garden of Eden. Just imagine for a moment when the words, “I pronounce you husband and wife,” are spoken; instead of the guests seeing two individuals standing side by side or face to face, they see those two people miraculously become one in the flesh.  Isn’t this Amazing? Remarkable? Incredible? Impossible? In Luke 1:37, when the angel Gabriel announced to Mary that Elizabeth is with child at an old age”, he stated, “For nothing will be impossible with God.” God is the answer to this mystery of marriage, of how two people, who may even be opposites in some cases, can somehow come to be “one flesh.” Ephesians 3:20 teaches us that God “…is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,”. The power that works in us is the power of the Holy Spirit. Be Blessed