Sunday, September 9, 2001
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Sunday, September 9, 2001 |
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Want a new spouse? By DR. KNOX HERNDON
Seems like "new spouses" are the national pastime these days, or at least 50 percent of Americans felt that way. I saw a bumper sticker the other day that stated: "For Sale, X Wife, Take Over Payments!." My wife, Dee, and I attended a wedding ceremony up north a few years ago and the wedding vows, if you could call them that, went something like this. There was not a shred of till death do us part, or in sickness and in health, or in good times or bad, or anything old-fashioned like forsaking all others. The key phrase that stuck out in my mind was the "as long as we both shall LOVE." In other words, if on any given day you wake up and look over at your spouse and have "no love for him or her," the marriage is null and void. Guess what, that is exactly what happened to the marriage! Strange, isn't it, that sometimes we get what we ask for no vows, no commitment, no marriage! In fact the Bible talks about a personality without God. In Galatians 5:19 it speaks of the deeds of the flesh being evident which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealously, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissentions, factions, envyings, drunkenness, carousings. Does any of this sound familiar in today's marriages? There is a wonderful, wonderful "new spouse remedy." If you seriously want a new spouse, I would recommend the old one, with a twist of fruit fruit of the Spirit that is. How would you like to have a spouse that most of the time had: LOVE, JOY, PEACE, PATIENCE, KINDNESS, GOODNESS, FAITHFULLNESS, GENTLENESS, AND SELF CONTROL? This is all found in God's formula for your spouse no matter how sorry he or she currently is. This is all found in God's word in Galatians in the fifth chapter. Isn't it interesting that people today want to re-invent all the values of God and then wonder why in the world their lives are falling apart? Vow today to press into God and read his formula for marriage. What a spiritually novel idea! The Rev. Dr. Knox Herndon is the pastor of His House Community Church (SBC) and a former Army chaplain. The church is just below Senoia on Ga. Highway 85, about a mile south of Ga. Highway 16, just below the fire station. Visitors welcome. Church office and prayer line 770-719-2365; e-mail KHERN2365@aol.com.
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