Saving Marriage
What has happened to America nowadays? We do not as much of people being married, but women talk about their problems with their live-in boyfriend, and men talk about the false commitments they have made to their girlfriends. It seems as if marriage is becoming obsolete! Many of these live-ins have children from other relationships, and they have some with their present “partner” (as if the words “husband” and “wife” are taboo!). Even the queers are getting in on raising children “together” with their distorted and perverted values. What chance do the youngsters have of knowing right from wrong?
Satan’s attack on the family, the “backbone of America” is a subtle attack indeed. He has managed to confuse the people and has cast a dark shadow on the sacred relationship that God has ordained--marriage.
Gen 2:21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
Gen 2:22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Gen 2:23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Gen 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
God Himself has termed the word “wife”, and he has established a precedent for marriage as “one man and one woman”. Satan’s attack on the family unit is a direct attack on the institution of God, and we seem to sit idly by and watch as the nation swirls around as in an eddy, and slowly is sucked under by the subtle cesspool of Satan’s schemes.
What has happened to marriage? Where has it gone? The hippy movement of the sixties became the crucial blow for marriage. “The term “free love” became appealing to men (mankind), and the moral fiber of America took a serious blow along with marriage. As the family goes, so goes the nation.
Today, “sleeping together” is a recreation and no longer a sacred institution; marriage has lost its charm and sex has prevailed over all, and we fail to attack the enemy of marriage because we do not want to offend anyone! We need to be aggressive against sin and evil; we have been made afraid to “charge hell with a squirt gun” as some accusers say of us, and let the Lord put the fires out. A squirt gun douses more flame than not doing anything at all! We have been afraid to “cram it down their throats” as they say we do, and yet the world is constantly cramming their evil down our throats! No wonder we are losing the battle! We need to saturate the world, or our small corner of it, with the Gospel. We can leave tracts everywhere and anywhere, and we can all be more aggressive in one-on-one confrontations. We have listened too long to the critics that say we will chase the sinner away if we witness to them when they do not want to hear it. Where are we going to chase them to? They are condemned already, how much more condemned can they be? And by the way, we really don’t want to hear some their vane talk, but they still persist in their evil speaking, whether we like it or not. They are more aggressive than we are, yet they have nothing to offer us. We are too worried about our influence, and think we need to be friends with them before we can be an effective witness, but who wins them then, us, or the Lord? It is the Word of God that stirs men’s souls, and not our friendship, as we so mistakenly think. We are not commissioned to make friends, but to share the Gospel message; we do not have to worry about our “delivery” if the Lord is in it, just proclaim the Gospel to everyone we can, and let the Lord work. Not only do we glorify the Lord in doing so, but with some we make a difference, “pulling them out of the fire:
Jud 1:22 And of some have compassion, making a difference:
Jud 1:23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
It’s time to get your armor on, and march forth into battle as good soldiers of Jesus Christ. Unless we get back to the Bible and shun the “vain philosophies of men” we will not save marriage, and our country will decay from the inside, and we will be a reproach to ourselves and to others.
Gypsy Martindale
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