Too many marriages are ending in divorce these days. And, sadly, it is the Christian marriages that are leading the way in this trend. It seems everyone is closely related to a divorce in some way or another. The question for those of us who are single is, how do we stop this trend from pervasively poisoning our marriages? The answer is simple but by no means easy.
Let me first state the problem, as any good doctor diagnosis the disease ere he prescribes the cure. The reason why so many marriages are falling apart is because we found too much on the emotions of love. Sadly, we expect too much from our respective spouses. Marriage is not a give and take. When you dive in, it is all give and no take. Indeed, love is not an emotion but an action. Let us take the greatest of examples, Jesus the Christ. He loved His bride even unto the point of death. Is this how we love?
But this is not the ultimate problem. It is but a symptom. This is really just a spawn of the fact that we love ourselves too much. There can only be one true object of love and if that object is ourselves, we will be consumed by it and ultimately destroyed by this self devotion. Further, our spouse will be left out.
The solution is not pure love of your spouse for this can never be achieved but for true love. And true love only comes from the love of Christ. You must love Christ and Him ALONE. And if you love Him, and you build your relationships and your marriage on the foundation of Christ and His Holy Word, you will have an ever certain reliance through the rough times ahead. Love Christ.
Soli Deo Gloria
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Miss California
It is rather comic, I think, to begin my blog with so controversial a subject. But it is so. Indeed, I have had such a blog in mind for some time; however, it was this subject that has ultimately propulsed me into the bloggosphear.
Let me first make clear three facts. (1)Miss California is right about marriage. (2)This post is not about that specific issue. And (3), I'm a Christian dude.
That said, I am outraged at some of what I am seeing on this topic. Yes, Miss California took a spot on stand in favour of heterosexual marriage; however, her opinion is too terribly spotted in that she typifies the opposite extreme. I will be plain. Homosexuality is a sin, and so Heterosexuality outside the confines of Biblical Matrimony and the standards set forth by God Almighty in the Ten Commandments and by Christ, our Sovereign, in His sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5) is also a sin. Simply, Miss Cali says marriage is between one man and one woman but her flaunting says something else altogether. I shall not leave it to speculation what it is; her near nude body simply says marriage can be between one man and hundreds of fantasy women (or even the reverse as well as both).
This brings me to my main point. Namely, SHAME on you Christian men of the bloggosphear! You, of all men, should know how devastating this evil can be and is! There are two evils here and we need not jump to the opposite evil simply to show we are not of the other. This is foolishness.
And please know this. God does not choose "the lesser of two evils". Rather He punishes all evil as equally reviling to His Holiness. God can have no blemishes before Him, though one blemish is the opposite colour of another. I therefore beseech you! Conduct yourselves in holy reverence and in abhorrence of both sins. Please, my Christian brothers, I beg you to pray also for those in both sins that God might pluck them as He has plucked me from the putrid sins of our rebellion. Pray for Miss California. Pray for the Homosexual judge. And pray for one another in this great time of unbridled sin.
Peace and God be with you.
Sola Deo Gloria
The Puritan
Let me first make clear three facts. (1)Miss California is right about marriage. (2)This post is not about that specific issue. And (3), I'm a Christian dude.
That said, I am outraged at some of what I am seeing on this topic. Yes, Miss California took a spot on stand in favour of heterosexual marriage; however, her opinion is too terribly spotted in that she typifies the opposite extreme. I will be plain. Homosexuality is a sin, and so Heterosexuality outside the confines of Biblical Matrimony and the standards set forth by God Almighty in the Ten Commandments and by Christ, our Sovereign, in His sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5) is also a sin. Simply, Miss Cali says marriage is between one man and one woman but her flaunting says something else altogether. I shall not leave it to speculation what it is; her near nude body simply says marriage can be between one man and hundreds of fantasy women (or even the reverse as well as both).
This brings me to my main point. Namely, SHAME on you Christian men of the bloggosphear! You, of all men, should know how devastating this evil can be and is! There are two evils here and we need not jump to the opposite evil simply to show we are not of the other. This is foolishness.
And please know this. God does not choose "the lesser of two evils". Rather He punishes all evil as equally reviling to His Holiness. God can have no blemishes before Him, though one blemish is the opposite colour of another. I therefore beseech you! Conduct yourselves in holy reverence and in abhorrence of both sins. Please, my Christian brothers, I beg you to pray also for those in both sins that God might pluck them as He has plucked me from the putrid sins of our rebellion. Pray for Miss California. Pray for the Homosexual judge. And pray for one another in this great time of unbridled sin.
Peace and God be with you.
Sola Deo Gloria
The Puritan
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