What’s the word that you associate with your marriage or the
marriage you want to be in? Is it commitment?
I’d offer that it should be. Out
of all the words, commitment is the one that expresses the need of modern
marriages.
Why that one word?
Because commitment best expresses the nature of
marriage. Marriage is a dual-covenant
between a husband and wife and the couple and God. Commitment is what it takes to stay in that
covenant. It’s not love that keeps the
covenant. It’s not kids that keep the
covenant. It’s not success or comfort
that keep the covenant. It’s commitment.
What’s more, the commitment is the fertilizer of the soil of
that covenant. It is what helps the love
grow. Dietrich Bonhoeffer said it this
way: “It is not your love that sustains
the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.” Commitment is how the love grows.
So what about you and your commitment to your marriage? Or if your single, do you have in your mind
that it’s commitment (as opposed to romance, sex, or something else) that will
make your marriage?
Commitment matters.
And it matters in your marriage and life.
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