Marital Bliss!!!

Soooo we have finished our marriage course we've been attending at HTB for the last many monday nights! What did we think? Some useful tools from some wiser Christians for a happy and godly marriage. What did we learn that we didn't know already or had forgotton? We so often have too high expectations, i am a rhino (watch it!!!) and Matt is a hedgehog in terms of how we express or don't express anger, keep your drains unblocked (ask for clarification), invoke the ten o'clock rule (again ask if you want to know), my main love language is acts of service, Matts is words of affirmation, forgive quickly, say sorry even quicker, communicate communicate communicate, our marriage is just an itsy bitsy teeny weeny messy picture of an eternal, wonderful, fulfilling, perfect, intimate, committed, secure, passionate marriage between the Lamb, our Jesus, and the church, us who believe. Wowser, what an important role we have then as marrieds! We need to show Gods commitment and love for his church as best we can!

John Piper says that due to this great truth, adultery and unfaithfulness are actually rejections and offences against Jesus! If we settle for these we are lying about Jesus, we are lying about his commitment and passion for the church. Because marriage is to show Christ's relationship with his church... wow - serious stuff!