Pastor Mark concludes our marriage series, “Better Than A Love Story”, talking about how to create a love that lasts forever by doing marriage God’s way.
How do we align our marriage with what God wants?
Song of Songs 7:1-10 (NIV): “How beautiful your sandaled feet, O prince’s daughter! Your graceful legs are like jewels, the work of an artist’s hands. Your navel is a rounded goblet that never lacks blended wine. Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by lilies. Your breasts are like two fawns, like twin fawns of a gazelle. Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath Rabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon looking toward Damascus. Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel. Your hair is like royal tapestry; the king is held captive by its tresses. How beautiful you are and how pleasing, my love, with your delights! Your stature is like that of the palm, and your breasts like clusters of fruit. I said, “I will climb the palm tree; I will take hold of its fruit.” May your breasts be like clusters of grapes on the vine, the fragrance of your breath like apples, and your mouth like the best wine. May the wine go straight to my beloved, flowing gently over lips and teeth. I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for me.”
Marriage God’s Way must ruthlessly kill out every competitor to your spouse.
What does this mean?
Song of Songs 7:1 (NIV): “How beautiful your sandaled feet, O prince’s daughter! Your graceful legs are like jewels, the work of an artist’s hands.”
Marriage God’s Way must relentlessly seek ways to serve one another.
Song of Songs 7:11-13 (NIV): “Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside, let us spend the night in the villages. Let us go early to the vineyards to see if the vines have budded, if their blossoms have opened, and if the pomegranates are in bloom— there I will give you my love. The mandrakes send out their fragrance, and at our door is every delicacy, both new and old, that I have stored up for you, my beloved.”
What about if I’m single?
Marriage God’s Way must start by resolutely pursuing the right kind of spouse.
1 Corinthians 6:14 (NIV): “By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also.”