Hey.
Do you find yourself in one of these situations?
You’ve wanted to find the love of your life for years, but the people you’ve come across are selfish, mean, unbearable, or just plain weird.
You met someone, you live with them (or might as well because your lives are so intertwined), and you’ve spent years of your life with this person who, well, it just seems like there could be someone better.
You’ve been married for years. Every day you look out and see happy couples, and you’re not one of them. Your spouse is totally thoughtless, and doesn’t live up to any expectations you ever had on marriage. You’d really like to leave, but kids and finances make it nearly impossible.
You’re the one who’s hated in the relationship. You were just trying to live life and do your thing, and despite the fact that you’re a pretty decent person, your spouse finds every reason to pick on you—all the time, everywhere. You’d like to prove yourself to them. You’d like them to stop being so critical. You’d like some kind of solution, but it’s nowhere to be found.
It’s all over. You left. They left. There was someone else. It’s all a mess, and it’s all broken. Your fairytale ideals are over, and who knows where to go from here? All you know is that love is a sham.
It wasn’t meant to be this way. And it doesn’t have to stay this way forever.
There is a God in heaven, and he created you for something different. He created you for lifelong, devoted love. But that love doesn’t even look like what you might imagine it looks like. It’s richer, fuller, and better. Examining God’s design for life and love is the key to finding and living out a lifelong, happy marriage.
God’s love in marriage — How 1 Corinthians 13 plays out in marriage.
God’s love in dating — How 1 Corinthians 13 plays out in dating
God’s design for marriage — The foundations of what you were created to be
Our culture’s definitions of feminine and masculine are not God’s definitions — roles in love and marriage