Love, Sweet Love!

Friday, Marci’s parents celebrate 73 years of marriage. We just celebrated 45 years together. The longevity of our marriages didn’t come from reading a marriage manual. The only manual that kept us together was Emmanuel.

Christ’s unending love is the cause of our unending love. “We love because He loved us first.” 1 John 4:19

Today’s divorce rate is sad proof that, “What the world needs now is love, sweet love. It’s the only thing that there’s much too little of.”

Yep! The inability to sustain lifelong marriages is a supply and demand problem. There is a high demand for love, but there’s just too little of it.

The good news is there is no supply shortage of love in Christ. He has enough love to fill every heart. The secret is learning how to access it.

“He has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love.” Romans‬ ‭5‬:‭5‬ ‭

The Holy Spirit is God’s dispenser of an endless supply of love. To be filled with the Spirit is to be filled with supernatural love. Francis Chan says, “Never in history has there been two Spirit-filled people—people walking in the Spirit—who have gotten divorced. It’s impossible!”

I would agree. Divorce occurs when one or both spouses choose to live to please their flesh, rather than please the Holy Spirit. Paul made it clear when he said, “Walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.” Galatians 5:16

So Happy 73rd Anniversary Don and Glenda! We honor you for choosing to stay married, for better, for worse, in sickness and in health. May the Spirit of God continue to enable you to love and cherish each other. . . till death do you part.

Cheers!