Sharing a Book

One thing my wife and I do every year is share a book on marriage. We read out load a chapter together and talk about those things that stuck out. We are reading, Sacred Marriage by Gary Thomas. In chapter two, he compared man centered marriages to God centered marriages. A man centered marriage is maintained as long as our desires, comforts and expectations are being met. You can see how this sets up marriages for failure. What happens if both spouses have a bad day on the same day? But in a God centered marriage, we preserve our marriage because it brings glory to God and points a sinful would to a reconciling Creator. The Goal of marriage is to Model God's Love for his church to the World. Marriage was created to please God, not you. I will close with this quote in reference to divorce: "How can I tell my children that God's promises of reconciliation is secure when they see that my own promise (to my spouse) doesn't mean a thing?

Ask yourself what I ask myself, how can I representative of Christ to the world, when I can't represent Christ to my wife/husband?