Do you value your own wedding vows enough to help others value theirs?
Does the institution of marriage mean enough to you that you would be willing to do something? Something to help? Anything? Pray? Counsel? Something more than just say you are pro-family? Would you put your words into action and make a difference?
I know you know divorce rates are high. You may see countless children growing up in broken homes. Years ago, when I lived in Pleasanton, California, I saw one family after another in our neighborhood fall to divorce. The lady across the street was left by her husband and raised her son mostly alone. Two doors to the right, a family moved out and a young couple with small children moved in. Shortly after, they divorced and sold the house. Across the street and to the left one house, a couple about my age had a teenage daughter and three younger children, and they divorced, and a real estate lady moved in who was a divorced Christian living with a boyfriend, and they became convicted of sin and he moved out while she remained. Two doors to our left, another couple with children split up. And then one day at work, I logged into my computer to see my wife having a conversation with a man about an affair. That was confronted and forgiven, but it would be only a few months before she would divorce me for another man.
So, there is the pattern. It happens to other people all around you, and then it happens to you. Or your son. Or your daughter. Or your parents.
The time to do something to save marriages is always now. Yesterday is never enough. Tomorrow is too late.
The person to do what it takes is always “me”. It is never “him” or “her” or “you” or “someone else”. Say the three words out loud — It—Is—Me. If you don’t do it, someone else won’t do it for you. When was the last time you did anything to help save marriages? Today? Awesome! Your own marriage counts. Your children’s marriage counts. It is not selfish to do something to shore up any marriage.
There is work to be done in the legal community. There is work to be done in the church. There is work to be done in the schools. My goodness! Did you know the homosexuals and the pedophiles probably do a million times more to break down marriages than Christians do to help save marriages? We better pray!!!
I don’t say that to rip into Christians or condemn Christians, but we need to stop trying to be more sincere and learn to be sincere at all. I mean it. Is that unfair?
Little children are growing up in broken homes because more of us would rather spend our time watching the TV and we would rather spend our money on sinful pursuits than on saving marriages and families. Few of us have ever led one person to salvation through Jesus Christ and most Christians don’t even know how to obey this basic commandment of Jesus Christ to take the Good News to all the earth. We need to be revived ourselves before we can hope to bring revival to others.
Wedding Vows
Is the value of your wedding vows so great that your spouse can expect you to stand by them?
Do you have the courage and integrity to back up your wedding vows with accountability and legal assurance your family will not be deprived of their right to live together full time and enjoy the shared family home and possessions by anything you do?
If so, you may be ready for a Sincerity Marriage.
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