Johnston Publications

On Marriage

For a single man or woman marriage is a very big decision. Marriage may be the most sacred promisethey will ever make to another person. This is true because the union of marriage is the most intimate relationship two human beings can share. A decision for marriage asks for a lifetime commitment. Yes, marriage requires much more than just sharing your dwelling place. It asks you to share your life for the rest of your days. It requires a complete refocus away from the individual. In marriage you do what is best for the relationship. And no, a husband and wife do not acquire marital bliss the very day they say, “I do.” Hopefully, they will have an abundance of happiness. However, throughout the rest of their days together they will also face trials and obstacles. They are going to face ups and downs they never expected.

Culturally, today the institution of marriage seems to be ripping at the seams and falling apart. The traditional values of marriage are scoffed at. Couples’ choosing to live together outside of wedlock is now a common practice. Usually their eyes are blinded to spiritual values and to the penalties they will pay for their fornication. For those that do choose marriage, far too often they are seeing their exciting hopes and dreams fade away and they divorce. Marriage commitments are easily tossed to one side through the process of no-fault divorce laws. But the fruits of divorce are bitter tasting and hard to swallow. The impact of sorrow and loneliness usually wear upon the divorcees’ hearts. It might take years and years for men and women to recover their lives from the devastation of being divorced. Some may never fully recover from the degradation and emptiness of their loss.

In bygone generations, school was a help in teaching sound homemaking skills, but those days are past and gone. Where are the professional training schools, and where are the universities that are structured to prepare individuals for the union of marriage? The few schools that address this need often fail to provide the “essential” information that is so necessary in preparing a man to become a husband and a woman to become a wife. For the most part, couples just “wing it.” But just “winging it” is not enough; obviously, it is not working.

Couples who are contemplating marriage, and those who are already in it, desperately need a solid bedrock marriage guide. They need a sure guide upon which they can reliably depend—one that tells them not only what to do but how to do it. They need to understand how to get it right. They certainly have not received such a guide from what modern-day culture teaches about marriage, and they have not received it from their schools. Few of them have received it from their parents. Around fifty percent of their parents have, in fact, demonstrated to them that marriage does not work.

Does such a marriage guide exist? Is there a sure bedrock guide that can teach couples how to have a successful, gratifying life together as husband and wife? There is! Such a bedrock guide does exist; and it’s not only reliable, it is readily available. This sure guide is to be found by opening up the pages of the Bible and searching out what it teaches about marriage. Adopt the guidance of God’s Word and see your marriage plans blossom into the fruitful union you are sure to have. If you want to Learn more about marriage get the book now called Marriage According to His Book

Rev. Charlie P. Johnston