Love is sacrifice. Love is effort. Love is everything St. Paul describes in First Corinthians,
Love is forgiveness, its what christians ultimately hope to obtain from Jesus, right?
They may even claim to have experienced “love at first sight.” This is all fine fodder for Hallmark cards but it doesn’t actually make sense.
sure it can make sense, a person might at that moment may recognise something that will be good in their life.
bit like finding your first promising fresh tracks on a hunt....and the Lord works in mysterious ways, right?
It’s more accurate to say, when we first met, I was infatuated with her. There was an intense, mostly selfish, attachment.
I didn’t “love” her for her own sake, but for my sake. I think every relationship must start this way, but it can’t survive if it stays this way.
God says he is a selfish God. .and humans being only human can be selfish also, right?
the right kind of selfishness might well be good for a marriage.
More commonly, of course, people will stay together only so long as the infatuation lasts
If a person has erred, then its probably good to move on. Mankinds life is full of erring, its unavoidable.
scripture says the real treasure of life is about the getting/gaining of wisdom through life experiences.
Speaking of kids, The love is gone. I’m calling the adoption agency?
No, most of us would agree that such a thing would be horrific.
Jesus was adopted by Joseph..and Jesus was the son of a single mother.
nothing horrific about it, nor is the same thing necessarily horrific in the lives of mankind.
For my part, I know that I owe my love to my kids and my wife, but nobody is more entitled to it — to me, all of me — than my wife.
If one is a true christian, they should be following the NT great commandment:
MATTHEW 22:
"36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment."
If you are not putting the Lord Jesus first & foremost in your heart , then its a case of the 'cart before the horse.'
1600+ views...yet the christians on 24CF didnt pick up on something so vital & critical to their faith..?.....go figure.
I would be a mercenary, in it just to get mine for as long as it remains profitable. That’s a fine approach to business,
but it’s just not how marriage is supposed to work.
Mary joined with Joseph out of worldly practical reason, due to her social-community difficult circumstance as a young unmarried pregnant girl.
Like Mary, people can and do 'profit' from marriage more than just financially. God profits when christians do what pleases him. Christians hope
to profit/benefit in the day of final judgement by receiving Gods grace ..Even a spiritual based marriage is a contract entered into where one is
expected to uphold their end of the pledge to benefit/profit spiritually .It also has conditions, just like A christians relationship with God has
conditions layed down by God.