You are welcome. Drew.
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From: DREW PARKER III
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 11:01 AM
Subject: {dbilg} Re: Marraige
This is very good. Wow 66 years of marriage. good job, good for you
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From: Carleeta Manser
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 5:24 PM
Subject: {dbilg} Marraige
When my beloved Grace and I were young and carefree, we said our solemn
marriage vows to be true to each other “until death do us part;” but neither of
us in our naiveté had the slightest idea that death would really ever come.
But thanks to our fallen father Adam, it did. Now it leaves one of us left,
alone.
But I thank God as never before for the institution of marriage, for the
authority of “law” that underlay our 66 years together.
Were we a perfect couple? Neither of us was a perfect person (perfect
people belong in heaven, not on this earth); emotions are a flimsy foundation
on which to build a marriage. Had it not been for the blessed “law” that
gripped us and bound us together “in Christ” and held us firmly, no one knows
what might have blown us apart somewhere along our tumultuous, earth-quake
-driven way; and then enormous happiness would have eluded us.
I say to young people, get married! Be careful of course, seek the Lord’s
guidance; but let “law,” not emotions or fleeting passion, underlie your union.
And as a solid gift worth more than silver or gold, let me “give” you Genesis
24—the seven-step story of how to build (or better, receive) happiness in
marriage. Open your Bible to it and let it sink in:
(1) Vss. 3-6: Marry only a believer in the Lord. Vss. 7-8: The same angel
will guide you! Ask the Lord for him! Vss. 10-14: Watch for evidence of
kindness, grace, and generosity in the one you are thinking of. Rebekeh, in
sheer kindness of hospitality, drew water for ten camels not knowing who this
stranger was (that’s 30/40 gallons a camel).
(2) Vss. 11-14: Believe that the Lord God has “appointed” one to be yours
for life. He will never force you to marry this one or that; but He will guide
you to the one who will give you happiness forever.
(3) Vss. 15-20: Watch for those signs of unselfishness and human kindness.
(4) Vs. 21: “Hold your peace,” that is, go slow, don’t rush; take your
time, let the Lord lead.
(5) Vss. 50, 51: The in-laws recognize the Lord’s leading, and happiness is
the result.
(6) Vs. 58: The Lord Himself has given the woman the last word! Never,
never, will He force one to marry whom she cannot love and trust.
(7) Vs. 67: Look and see: here is the happiest marriage recorded in the
Bible—the marriage of Isaac and Rebekeh!
Blessed are you if you can let some of that happiness become yours!
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