I would like to talk to you today about a
joyful marriage. If the joy of the Lord is
our strength, then strong marriages
should be filled with joy. When a good
marriage loses its joy, it becomes weak
and vulnerable. Husbands and wives
who no longer laugh and play together
lose their love for each other.
I see Christian marriages suffering from
sober faced husbands and sad faced
wives. I have prayed with hurting
husbands or wives who have gravitated to
a sympathetic friend. This often leads to
transferring of affection, and then
betrayal. If you have problems in your
marriage, never tell them even to your
closest friend. You place them in a
position to hurt you when you need them
most. Lean on Jesus. He will never share
your hurts with anyone except our
Heavenly Father. I like to see husbands
and wives be best friends and confide
their hurts and needs only to each other.
Some years ago, a lady attended our
church. Her husband was an alcoholic. I
prayed and visited him many times, until
one day he asked Jesus into his heart. We
saw the joy of the Lord change his life.
Later. his wife commented, “Pastor Bob,
you know, I never had a husband the first
ten years of our marriage.” Human love is
not enough to keep a marriage strong.
Only God’s affection and love can do that.
Father, let your love and power be
available to me that your heavenly love
might flow into my marriage.
Amen.
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband. Ephesians 5:31-33 KJV
