Daily Devotional
Marriage Is A Lifetime Contract
November 30, 2016
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When you get married, it is a lifetime contract, not an optional one. Those families who stick it out and those who don’t have basically the same kinds of problems. If we would learn to attack the problem rather than one another, we could work it out.
Genesis 2:24 says, “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”
The permanence of marriage is communicated by God when He says a man is to leave his father and mother to “cleave” to his wife. The word “cleave” literally means to weld or to glue. The purpose of marriage is communicated by the phrase, “to be one flesh.” Now, God is talking about more than a sexual union. When you marry, you marry a whole person—body, soul and spirit. You are no longer an individual. You become one flesh. God’s arithmetic is one plus one equals one.
Marriage is a romance in which the hero and the heroine die in the first chapter and a new person comes into being, and that new person is one flesh.
FOR YOUR GIFT TO THE MINISTRY
Front Porch Moments by Gayle Foster
WITH KEY INSIGHTS FROM HER FATHER, ADRIAN ROGERS
I try to unplug each morning with Jesus with just my rocking chair, my Bible, and a pen.
Having a secret place is very important because I know that Jesus is always there waiting for me. I know where I can find Him! His presence is everywhere, but there are places where it is so thick you can cut it with a knife. You may not even have a front porch, but there is a secret place for you as well. God’s invitations are for anyone who will respond. There is no more important request than the one found in Psalm 27:8: “My heart has heard You say, ‘Come and talk with Me.’ And my heart responds, ‘Lord, I am coming.’”
