Christian – are you thinking of getting married?
If you are, I’d like to give you some unsolicited advice from this 75-year-old man, married to Nancy for more than 50 years: Obey the scriptures about your choice of spouse.
Before I met Nancy, I came very close – twice – to marrying. But each time I planned to ask each young woman, Billy Dodson – the Christian chaplain on the navy base where I was stationed – asked the same question: “Is she a Christian.”
Before I met Nancy, I came very close – twice – to marrying. But each time I planned to ask each young woman, Billy Dodson – the Christian chaplain on the navy base where I was stationed – asked the same question: “Is she a Christian.”
They were not.
Then he showed me what God has to say about such unions: “Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever?” (2 Corinthians 6:14-15)
I did NOT like Billy’s counsel. But I now had a critically important choice to make: Obey God, or not.
If I had decided to go my own way, to ignore, to disobey the clear word of scripture, then it is easy for me today – 50 years later – to extrapolate how tragically different my life would have turned out. I would have NEVER been able to serve Christ as I have for the last half-century.
If I had decided to go my own way, to ignore, to disobey the clear word of scripture, then it is easy for me today – 50 years later – to extrapolate how tragically different my life would have turned out. I would have NEVER been able to serve Christ as I have for the last half-century.
And I would now be in my mid-seventies, living with a ton of regrets because I chose my own way instead of His. And I never would have met and then married Nancy – a godly Christian young woman – with whom we have together loved and served our Lord for all these decades.
Christian: Are you contemplating marriage? Don’t make a terribly serious mistake by ignoring God’s instructions clearly outlined in scripture. Do not be unequally yoked with an unbeliever.
Christian: Are you contemplating marriage? Don’t make a terribly serious mistake by ignoring God’s instructions clearly outlined in scripture. Do not be unequally yoked with an unbeliever.
It doesn’t matter if the person goes to church. It doesn’t matter if the person can speak ‘Christian-ese,’ and knows a lot of Chistian doctrine. What DOES matter is this: Does your intended spouse love Jesus? I mean, REALLY love Jesus? Does the person want to serve Him with everything they have – mind, body soul, spirit, finances, time, and talent? Unless the person you want to marry can answer ‘yes’ to each of those questions, your fruitfulness for Christ will be far less than it could have been. And you will end up with a ton of regrets.
Please hear this experienced old man: Obey God.
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