Pray for Married Couples

I don't have anything fancy to say today.

Just a prayer request:

Take time today to pray for married couples. Meditate on Genesis 1:26-31; Genesis 2:21-24 and Ephesians 5:15-33. Peruse the Song of Songs. And pray these things over your marriage (present or future), and the marriages of others that you know.

This post isn't about about the definition of marriage. There are plenty of blogs on that.

Today, it's about naked, needy defense. Those who choose to marry had better arm themselves.

Divorce is an ugly scourge that mars the Image of Christ's love for the church. But not all sad marriages end in divorce. Some limp along, defeated. Some eek out an apathetic existence. Watch any sitcom involving a married couple to take the pulse of what the marriage template looks like in our society - it's not pretty.

The only defense against enmity, money woes, infidelity, apathy, physical abuse, power-struggle, sexual dysfunction, and chronic deceit MUST be otherworldly.

God, the Author of Love, must be the answer. This truth is too simple to be trite.

Pray for married couples today and, if applicable, for your future spouse. Pray that marriages would be otherworldly in the Image that they reflect.