Building on the Foundation

Marriage is boot camp for becoming sons and daughters of God. As with any good boot camp, the purpose of this one is to whip us into exceptional spiritual warrior shape in the space of a single lifetime. I think that we would agree that this is a pretty tall order for most of us.  It’s easy to say that marriage is a boot camp, but what does that actually mean, especially for those of us who are still single? Well, why did God create marriage? Did God create marriage to bring ultimate happiness to our lives?  As singles, a lot of us have idolized marriage as the one thing that will bring us true happiness. I know I’ve done that, and I’m sure many of you have too. We think that perhaps God created marriage to give us fulfillment, or maybe it was for the purpose of pure romantic love. I know! I bet God gave us another person to live with to complete us! That’s got to be it!  Or maybe not so much.  There’s nothing wrong with happiness or fulfillment, but is that why God ...

Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it.   Who can make us fall short or take that promise away from us? Can Satan destroy us or make us forsake God? Can he defeat us against our will?  John 10:28-29 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any [man] pluck them out of my hand. Romans 8:38-39 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. It would appear not to be so. So who then is our greatest enemy, the one who can separate us from God or make us fall short? It's ourselves. Us. We are the ones who make the choices in our lives. There are a lot of things that get chosen for us, but there is one thing that we will always be able to choose, and tha...