Love and Marriage
It seems there is a need to address this idea further. We have it spelt out for us specifically in the bible but there seems to be a need to cover it a bit further.
Problem 1 - Finding the right partner
Problem 2 - Establishing a good relationship
Problem 3 - Making a marriage that will last and endure
The idea here is not to look at it negatively but to realise there are hiccups in love and marriage relationships. It is so easy and obvious to think that everything is going to run smoothly and everything will fall into place. But in reality people are different and whilst God designed marriage partners to complement each other there is still breakdowns in communication and barriers put up that have to be destroyed. And open honest relationship where two people of a similar intellect and personality get together and form a binding and loving bond. Where gods perfect design is fulfilled and where everything works for good and falls into place.
Of course it is not easy and things don’t go the way there planned but identifying the problems leads to greater chances of success.
Problem 1- finding the right partner.
After many encounters with different women and many ideas on who would be the right one, I am still left single. As soon as I think I've found the right one some changes and I'm left back at square one.
Of course money helps but I believe that Marriage or in the initial meeting and forming a relationship for a partner ship there must be mutual love. It's I look around at the possible available I find that none agree with my thinking when needed in the critical times. I find myself giving out and not receiving . I find myself attempting to make some sort of commitment ad nothing happening or falling into place. I find myself out on a ledge when I should be digging into firm ground. In some ways it's a waiting game and in others one slip up and you lose the ball game. It seems it will never be perfect but I know it has to be and that what keeps me going.
Now I think ready to settle on 6, but none show the slightest bit of real interest in me.,. I know I can only have one and that one must be the right one. So a relationship will happen in Gods got to drop the cart at the right time and dice have got to come up on the right numbers. We will see.
Problem 2 - Establishing a good relationship.
Suppose now I have found the right one. What do I do? Take her out and make love on the first date? I know I'd like to but that's not right. Do I make ten dates with different women when I've found one I like! No after ten dates with different women I would have found the one. I watch and concentrate on her by buying flowers and gifts. By going on as many dates as possible and getting to know her as a person. She needs to know me to and we need to get to know each other well enough to trust each other and confide in each other problems. I know and she'll know it's not going to be that easy. If it is going to work positively and suitably for us both. And I'll know when the time is right to go that bit further and fondle her and caress her just right. Building a relationship must be built on a love of God. And it must be mutual effort or it is going to fail. But we know that love wins in the end and the steps we take are only those along the pathway that God leads us and that will that I mind success will be inevitable.
Problem 3. Making a marriage that will stay and endure.
It's seems to me that too many marriages fall apart without eve getting started, that too many problems come up in the first three years of marriage and there are too many divorces.
If a marriage is going to work ad last there must be enough commitment and perseverance to make it happen. It's not going to happy by itself it has to be worked at and it has to have sacrifices and adjustment to make it all happen.
It's must be based on a relationship with God and it must not deviate from biblical principles. It must be based on reality and it must be formed and directed to the eternal realm. Marriage and real love are not cheap commodities or possessions. But are a value centred philosophy that must meet with mutual goals and ideas. A marriage that endures is one that has God at the helm and is one that gives and takes and is not selfish but Christ directed and centred.
So what must I do to make this happen? Fall back on my prayers and wait and keep praying and praying that it will come about. For if I don’t make the effort how can I expect my partner to?