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The Wedding
June 3, 2024
Hey Clawson Family!
Song:
Scripture:
Proverbs 18:22 New Living Translation
22 The man who finds a wife finds a treasure, and he receives favor from the Lord.
Genesis 2:18 New Living Translation
18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him.”
Matthew 19:5-6 New Living Translation
5 And he said, “‘This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.’[a] 6 Since they are no longer two but one, let no one split apart what God has joined together.”
Devotional:
The wedding is a moment that is built up in our society. This is like the pentacle of everything. Growing up you talk about what you want in a spouse. Who you are going to marry. Potential prospects. Even as a little kid, you fantasize about your future wedding!
Then you start getting a little older and dating and getting serious with someone. You get engaged! And the moment that you have dreamed of is on your calendar. We prepare for months, sometimes years for this dream wedding. We spend thousands of dollars on this moment. We spend all of our time, energy, and resources to make sure that our wedding day is perfect.
Imagine if we would take the same energy, effort and planning that we used on our wedding day and put that into our actual marriages. Nobody would ever get a divorce! We would have no need for divorce. But Sadly this is not the reality that we live in…
The Bible says a man who finds a wife finds a treasure! That is how it should be in all of our marriages, and it can be if we are willing to put in the work, and get rid of our selfishness.
What is the definition of marriage! It gets a little confusing in our society and culture. According to our culture marriage is the legally or formally recognized union of two people as partners in a personal relationship. According to culture any two people could get married and be considered married. Biblically that is not the case!
God instituted marriage not the government and not the culture. A biblical definition of marriage would be when a man and a woman are united into one relationship through a covenant with God. That is what God recognizes marriage to be. If the state recognizes other things as marriage that does not mean that God does.
Here are some hard reality of statistics on Marriages
50 % of all marriages will end in divorce
42% of all first time marriages will end in divorce
60% of all second time marriage will end in divorce
72% of all third Marriages end in divorce
25% of the marriages that stay together will be married but are not happy
Why in the world would people stay together if they are not happy? They stay together because they want to make things work and hopefully eventually get happy. They stay together for the kids or stay together for whatever reason, but are not really happily married.
Which means that….
25% of the people that get married are going to stay together and be happy!
1 out of 4 people that get married stay married and are happy in their Marriage.
Can we all Acknowledge together that we are not doing a very good job in our Culture at stewarding our marriages?
But an encouraging word is no matter where you are right now in your marriage you can be apart of the 25% that is happily married if you are willing to do the work and training!
Journal:
In your journal write down what your top 5 priorities specific to your marriage are. What can you do to protect them?
Training:
Father,
Forgive us for placing our friends, relationships, and other things before You. Give us strength to place You first in every part of our lives. Help us prioritize better! You are one and our marriage is second. Nothing should come before! Help us to have Christ centered marriages!
In Jesus name Amen
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