READ: ACTS
1:15-26
Marriage
can be likened to a building. If the foundation is faulty the building will
collapse sooner or later. What then is the foundation of marriage? It is the
type of choice that you make. You can only experience success in your marriage
if you begin by accepting God’s will. If you are single, you must make up your
mind not to choose for yourself. Seek God’s will and He will guide you right. A
number of mature men and women have remained unmarried simply because they are
not ready to do God’s will. A sister was praying to God to reveal her husband
to her. She prayed fervently until God told her to look out of the window of
her house and that the man she would see out there was her husband. The gateman
happened to be a tall, handsome young man who waned to go to school but had no
scholarship. The sister went to relate her experience to her Pastor. When the
Pastor called the gateman brother, he said God had told him the same thing long
before that meeting but he was afraid to tell the sister. Anyway, the sister
succumbed to God’s will. The brother went back to school through the
scholarship of the sister and they eventually got married. If it were some
other people, they would have rebuked Satan for bringing about such an idea.
They would instead manipulate everything to suit themselves. Brothers,
especially, have a way of manipulating the issue even up to the point of
telling God to help them choose between two sisters. They also go to the extent
of throwing a coin to assist God to choose for them. They will even support
themselves with the Scripture. They say that after all, in Acts 1:15-26, when
the Apostles wanted to choose a successor to Judas Iscariot, they presented two
people and ask God to choose for them. They did not read further to discover
that nobody ever heard of Matthias again. Please do not choose first and ask
god to ratify. Keep yourself open. Tell God, “If I marry, glory is to your
name, and if I do not, the glory is to your name.” It is only then that you can
hear directly from Him. If you have made up your mind to marry, whether God
likes it or not, you will marry, but you may regret your choice.
MEMORIZE:
ROMANS 8:6 –For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is
life and peace.
