Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
When a man and a woman marry, they stand before God as it were and ask His blessing on their union; does He hear that prayer?
Yes. Most emphatically. And seriously.
The very fact that they are married before God is a tremendous boost toward their being happy together. It means that God is actively working to give them both the gift of happiness in their marriage; the Holy Spirit is active in their marriage relation.
The Bible is very clear that when Jesus was on earth, the Father actively initiated His fellowship with His Son by awaking Him every morning to maintain this relationship. The amazing story is in Isaiah. Among other things, it tells how the Father gave Him those wonderful stories and parables to tell the people: “The Lord God hath given Me the tongue of the learned [Jesus never went to the colleges or universities of the Jewish rabbis], that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: He wakeneth morning by morning, He wakeneth Mine ear to hear as the learned” (50:4).
And Jesus, although He was at that time a teenager, did not resist; when the Father woke Him up, He listened and He got up in obedience; as one translator renders it, He did not pull the covers over His head and go back to sleep.
Now for our question: does the Lord who invented marriage and has a stake in its success, care less for your peace and happiness in it? Happy marriages always bring honor and glory to the One who invented the idea!
All married couples are only human, finite and fallible; there has never been a perfect husband anywhere, nor even a perfect wife. In every marriage, no matter how happy they have been, when each has occasion sometimes to ask, “Please darling, will you forgive me?”
Here’s the path to happiness that never fails: “Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you” (Eph. 4:32).
Never forget that “even as ...” Remember the cross; let Christ’s forgiveness enter your own soul. It will make you overnight to be a new husband, a new wife.
Happy together forever.
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