MARRIAGE WORKS, IT CAN!

I read a statistics on marriage very recently that was somewhat scary. It summarily said marriage doesn't work again as many of the marriages that were 'contracted' have been blown apart. Imagine the joy that was given much celebration shattered into fragments after practically "no time". Some survived for so long as a month before giving way to whatever the pressure was.

Should we therefore simply climb the dais and declare that the institution was an ancient phenomenon, no longer relevant to modern minds.

A younger lady asked me few months after I got married how it was. She was dead serious in asking me:

"Pastor, how is marriage? She pulled me aside.

Is it boring"? I am serious, she said. I'd really like to know.

"No! Exactly opposite of that, I found it", was my reply.

She looked into my eyes as if she was searching for a clue. "Are you serious sir", she said.

Could this be the reason for the growing alternative lifestyle? Many are scared stiff of the oldest institution. Other are reserved. The preference of many for 'making babies' are being given special arrangement; the penchant of others for pleasure that should be reserved for marriage are been given expression of the platform of 'no limit, no bounds'. Is there an end to the list of the many alternatives in vogue?

This crisis cannot be resolved with mere suggestion that it can work; there must be renaissance based on realisation, reconsideration and resolve.

We all must realise that this phenomenon called marriage is not human idea to meet human need. It is rather God's idea. We must attempt to recognise the very need that God considered. It is more than sex and babies. It is life being share. It is not to cure loneliness, but to end alone-ness in our vision, assignment, and pursuits. It is not for the immature (not in age, but in attitude) and the unprepared (not in the sense of having built up wealth to fend for feminine specie that considers herself a project to be taken care of. It is for two who are resolved to constitute help and share burdens mutually.

We must institute a reconsideration of our ways. The way of man through his challenges is not in himself, no apology to new age concept and various dubbing of it. Our consideration must lead us back to God and his ways or principles.

We must make a resolve to make it work. Yes, it can work, if we have admitted our failures and concluded on the need for a change. Our resolve must be to make it work, beating all odds; our resolve must be to live by the word of God; our resolve must be to shine as light in the midst of a perverse generation.

Marriage works, when it is considered from God's viewpoint; it works when it is ordered in a life of obedience.

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