Don't Do It Alone

Psalm 127:1 “Unless the Lord builds a house, it’s builders labor over it in vain; unless the Lord watches over a city, the watchmen stays alert in vain.” ~CSB

Marriages, parenting, relationships with friends, family and co-workers, will not reach their full spiritual potential without God at the head of it. Let us use marriage as an example. The world teaches us that marriage is hard. Statistics from the world show us that marriage failure is greater than marriage being successful. An even scarier look on marriage is that a couple that is incredibly happy in their senior years of marriage is extremely rare. Why is this?

It is because marriage is uncharted territory. A territory that is included in God’s plan for our lives. No one couple’s relationship is the same. This is why counselors for marriage do not have a secret blueprint for a successful marriage because there isn’t one. Counselors can only guide you to use what God has blessed you with to have a successful marriage. You see, marriage is God’s gift. It is uncharted territory because God has a different plan for every couple.

The foundation of marriage is God’s love, not the couple’s love. The couple’s love will fall during the tests and trials of marriage. The couple’s love is taught by the world to be based on money, worldly success and even built on a foundation of lust. Marriages based on these are doomed.

But it is that couple that finds God’s love in their hearts, for Him and each other, that will build the strong foundation in their marriage. Strong enough to weather all storms that may come. Strong enough to cease the yelling and anger in their arguments and find a calm that leads to God’s solution for their problems. God has the plan for us in our marriages. And when we embrace that, it becomes easier to handle other relationships in our lives.

As we discover and build a strong relationship with our spouse, we can automatically build those same strong foundations with others in our lives. Our children, our family, our friends, our co-workers, and yes, even strangers that may cross our paths on a daily basis.

Unless we allow the Lord to be the builder of our lives, we will have a foundation that will fall in any season of struggle. With God, we will have a foundation that will stand the test of opposition and time.

May God continue to bless and keep you as you journey in Jesus’ name.

Amen

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