I went to a wedding today, it was such a wonderful service. It was the first wedding I have been to since ours last April and it brought back many memories of the day. The minister shared an interesting statistic - 50% of marriages end in divorce! Obviously very encouraging to the newly married couple - however, what he went on to share was that of couples that attend church regularly only 1 in 50 end in divorce and of those couples that pray regularly together only 1 in 1000 end in divorce. Isn't it amazing how much difference allowing God to be in your marriage makes!
Sometimes it has been hard for Jill and I to form this habit - we have both in the past been such independent people and in many ways this has caused us to be proud and self sufficient, yet we both know that our relationship is more important to us than anything else in the world and we will safeguard it at all costs. I truly believe that as we let God into our marriage it will be even more loving and my hope is that it then can overflow to those around us that need to be loved the most.
My prayer today, Lord Jesus is that Jill and I can submit more and more to your loving ways by coming to you in prayer every day - and in this way we can be truly loving of our neighbour, whoever that may be, so that you will be glorified in every way through our marriage.
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