This past Labor Day weekend, my wife and I celebrated our 57th wedding anniversary. In 1999, a newspaper article said that ‘there won’t be many 50th anniversary celebrations in the new millennium. Too many divorces, too many marriages postponed till the career is launched, and too many cohabitants who have never said, I do.’
Why do people today have 50+ anniversaries? In my generation, marriage wasn’t for the time being or as long as it feels good and nobody better comes along. People married before their hair turned gray and stayed married when it did. It wasn’t for ‘as long as we both shall love,’ it was ‘til death do us part, in sickness and in health, for better or for worse.’
The secret to lasting marriages is the commitment to keep one’s wedding vows, regardless. It is the commitment to bear children and to raise them with a mother and a father. It is far better, and the way God teaches us to live, than any other alternative forms of family today. Not always, of course. Not perfectly, for we are not perfect. There are dreadful marriages, happy divorces, and successful single parents. But, on average, marriage works better as God’s way for raising children.
Marriage has no place for being self-centered. It is not ‘I’ or ‘You,’ it is ‘We.’ According to Genesis 2:18-24, God made Adam and Eve one flesh. Marriage works best when we keep this in mind. Are you working on “a rare thing?”
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