Keep Your Vows

I feel compelled to share something I read today, completely by "accident." I went shopping for a new bible today and saw one that interested me so I opened it and it fell on this page - the page I am about to share with you.

Keep Your Vows
Breaking a covenant made before God is one of the most treacherous sins possible. When it's a marriage vow, it betrays a sacred promise made to another person and defies the living God. Jesus tells us, "Therefore what God has joined together let not man separate." Mark 10:9.

When we make a vow, when we enter into the covenant of marriage, we no longer are in a place of asking whether we should keep it; now we are in a place of asking how we should keep it. "When you make a vow to God, do not delay to pay it; for He has no pleasure in fools." Ecclesiastes 5:4.

We need to ask "How do we make this work? What must we do to make our marriage the kind of union God wants it to be? How can we make sure we are truely committed to one another and not just going through the motions?"

God established marriage and He calls each of us who have entered into this covenant relationship to fullfill its most holy calling by treating it as a sacred covenant, not just between two people but also between two people and a holy God.

After reading this at the book store, I sat down and had to really absord it all with tears in my eyes. My heart is for hurting women and men who are suffering in their marriages and contemplating divorce. It hit me hard, as I am facing the same - unless God performs a true miracle is our lives. My prayer is for more couples to truly embrace the real meaning of the marriage covenant - and for the word "divorce" to never be a part of their vocabulary. With God all things are possible - even restoration of relationships and marriages.

I invite you all to check out the bible called the Family Life Marriage Bible available at your Christian book store.