My husband teaches a college & career Sunday School class and we try to be involved in their lives. We love "our kids". It has been exciting to see how God has worked. We have 4 that have gone off to college and are involved in many different and exciting activities-ensembles, collegiate soccer, choir, drama, and baseball-just to name a few. Those that are at home with us are also involved in many different ministries in our local church as well as going to college and working full-time jobs. I love to spend time with them-listening to them and sharing with them and just plain loving on them. This age is an amazing age. They have matured throughout their teen years. They don't have to come to church-they come because they want to. They ask great questions and they have a lot to say on many different topics-willing to share what they believe and have studied and learned. They are at an age where they are developing relationships. We have one young married couple and we now have two couples that are engaged. The first couple will be married at the end of this year and we are excited, happy, and sad for them. It is a wonderful time in their lives and for that we are excited and happy, but they are moving out of state for him to finish his college education and for that we are sad.
Today the ladies of our church family got together to shower her with love and blessings and marriage advice and gifts for them to start their marriage together.
We believe that marriage is ordained of God and is for one man and one woman. Andrew and Madeline are for each other.
Genesis 2:22-24
"Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman, ' for she was taken out of man." For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh."
Matthew 19:4-6
"Haven't you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,' and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh' ? So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate."
Marriage isn't easy. It takes work, communication, listening, compromise, and making a choice to love one day at a time. It is not a 50/50 relationship-it is 100/100.
1 Corinthians 13:4-13 "
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends."
Our marriages should mirror the picture and relationship of Christ and his 'bride' the church.
Ephesians 5:22-25
"Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,"
Remembering that everything we do should be done to honor and glorify God because only what's done for Christ will last. As we love each other we should have Christ as the center of our relationship and then we will strive to serve Him and please Him with our lives together.
I'm excited to see what God is going to continue to do in the lives of 'our kids' as they love Him and love each other and continue to seek and serve Christ-what a blessing they are to me!
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