Category Archives: God
Lab 102
1 Corinthians 13:6-7 “It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.”
Love is a choice. You love because you chose to love and if you stop loving it is because you chose to stop loving. The choice to love should continue if the marriage is to last. Read the rest of this entry
Lab 101
1 Corinthians 13:4-5 “Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.”
Yesterday we established that Attraction is not love. Attraction is a good thing because it can make learning to love easier. But attraction is not love. Read the rest of this entry
Idea & Model
Malachi 2:16 “‘I hate divorce,’ says the Lord. “To divorce your wife is to overwhelm her with cruelty,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. “So guard your heart; do not be unfaithful to your wife.” (emphasis added).
God says to divorce your wife is to overwhelm her with cruelty. God speaking to the man, says do not divorce your wife. Did you notice that God did not even say do not divorce your husband? He did not speak to the woman because it is unheard of in God’s design. Read the rest of this entry
Not You
Malachi 2:15 “God, not you, made marriage. His Spirit inhabits even the smallest details of marriage. And what does he want from marriage? Children of God, that’s what. So guard the spirit of marriage within you. Don’t cheat on your spouse.” (MSG)
Genesis 2:18-23 “Then God said, ‘It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion who is right for him.’ Adam gave names to all the animals he discovered…
God’s Design
Matthew 26:39 “Going a little ahead, he fell on his face, praying, “My Father, if there is any way, get me out of this. But please, not what I want. You, what do you want?” (MSG)
I know there are people who desire to get married reading this today. In fact, about a third of people in church are unmarried adults – either never married or used to be married. Read the rest of this entry
The Main Thing
Matthew 6:33 “Seek first the kingdom of God.” (ESV, emphasis added).
How do we stay aligned and how do we keep the main thing, the main thing? The answers to these questions we will get from the Words of Jesus Himself. Read the rest of this entry
Beyond The Kiss
Ruth 1:8-9 “But on the way, Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back to your mothers’ homes. And may the Lord reward you for your kindness to your husbands and to me. May the Lord bless you with the security of another marriage.” Then she kissed them good-bye…”
Orpah stuck with Naomi even beyond the death of her husband, Naomi’s son. And that is extremely commendable. To think that such a person still will not make it to
Categories
Ruth 1:14&16 “And again they wept together, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law good-bye. But Ruth clung tightly to Naomi… “Don’t ask me to leave you and turn back. Wherever you go, I will go; wherever you live, I will live. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.”
Beginning today, we will be zooming in on the story of Naomi and Ruth. God’s Word for us will take us to the more He has made us for in all the areas of our lives. We are made for more, and God is showing us how to walk in it.
Action Time!
Judges 7:6 “Only 300 of the men drank from their hands. All the others got down on their knees and drank with their mouths in the stream.” (emphasis added).
Gideon’s army was reduced from thirty-two thousand “strong” to three hundred. If God reduced it from thirty-two thousand to sixteen thousand, fifty percent reduction, even that is a lot for a leader (for anybody”. But God did not do a fifty percent reduction.
