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DID I MARRY THE RIGHT PERSON? “Another thing you do: You flood the Lord's altar with tears. You weep and wail because he no longer pays attention to your offerings or accepts them with pleasure from your hands. You ask, "Why?" It is because the LORD is acting as the witness between you and the wife of your youth, because you have broken faith with her, though she is your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant.” –Malachi 2:13,14 Sometimes someone will say to us, “I think I married the wrong person. I know God can be glorified by the love I have with this new person. It’s just so right. And we both enjoy worshiping the Lord together!” -and they mean it! They really believe this may be God’s will for them. Why? Because “God would want us to be happy.” Perhaps you’ve heard that yourself. Perhaps you’ve said it, or at the very least perhaps you have thought it. Oh, the power of deception! Let’s set the record straight: The right one for you is the one you said “I do” to. You see, God is not a respecter of persons, but he is a respecter of covenants. He gives us the free will to choose our mates. Once we choose and say, “I do” God puts His stamp of approval on that covenant. That’s the one for you. It may be a good choice or a bad choice, but once that choice is made God sees the covenant without discrimination among individuals. That’s why he gives us instruction about choosing a mate, and why we must be diligent in choosing, because once we say, “I do” we did! That’s it! It is settled in Heaven. We believe a lie when we think God would make an exception to His law for us. It’s nothing but being egocentric to think that God would want us to violate his covenant just so we could be happy. First of all, happiness is not the purpose for marriage, but rather the result of a good and Godly marriage. Let me repeat that: happiness is not the purpose for marriage but rather the result of a good and Godly marriage. That may be news to many of us who have been taught that God cares about our happiness more than he does about His covenants. That’s simply the spirit of this world creeping into the Church, what Robert Bork called “radical individualism.” That’s not God. The bottom line is the right person is the one you entered into the holy marriage covenant with; that’s where God set His seal of approval. Even if you think you did marry the “wrong person. If you will treat them like the right person they will become the right person. But if you married the right person and treat them like the wrong person they will, no doubt, become the wrong person. It’s up to you! Happiness is the result of obedience to His law not trying to change His law. Let’s reject the lies of the enemy and walk in Truth: The one I said “I do” to is the right one for me. Let’s start living like it. Question for the Both of Us: Why do I believe you are the one for me? Have there been times when the enemy tried to convince me otherwise? Pray for the Both of Us: Lord, help us to hold sacred the institution of marriage and to reject any attempts of the enemy to convince us that we are not the “right one” for each other. You have set your seal of approval on our covenant. Help us to do the very best we can with it so that we won’t be ashamed when you ask us what we did with the marriage you gave us. |
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