Love & Marriage

Diana L Houk
© October 19, 2007

My Personal Statement

* I believe in Jesus Christ & that he is the son of the almighty God.

* I believe we are all born for one purpose & this is to serve God (Jesus).

* This means to Love Jesus with all your heart, soul, & mind.

* I believe the greatest gift on this earth is to find your soul mate “true love” marry them, & spend your life in Love with them.

* I believe that as you put Jesus head of everything in your life he will direct your path & bless your marriage. So if you have a personal “born again” relationship with Jesus your Love for your companion will grow stronger, & you will know what true Love is.

Marriage is a holy sacred unity, one that God has ordained

To leave & cleave together as you become one is the greatest unity God ordained. God ordained the unity of marriage with Adam & Eve before he ordained the church.

Love is something that brings two people together as they choice to be married & this is an honorable institute of God.

To share your Love (life) with another person is a “Great Responsibility” one THAT should not BE taken lightly.

Love is something you do, it is an action word.

John 3:16-18

For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up His only begotten (unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life.

For God did not send the Son into the world in order to judge (to reject, to condemn, to pass sentence on) He who believes in Him [who clings to, trusts in, relies on Him] is not judged [he who trusts in Him never comes the world, but that the world might find salvation and be made safe and sound through Him.

He who believes in Him [who clings to, trusts in, relies on Him] is not judged [he who trusts in Him never comes up for judgment; for him there is no rejection, no condemnation--he incurs no damnation]; but he who does not believe (cleave to, rely on, trust in Him) is judged already [he has already been convicted and has already received his sentence] because he has not believed in and trusted in the name of the only begotten Son of God. [He is condemned for refusing to let his trust rest in Christ's name.] (Amplified)

For this is the greatest Love Gift of all! So as we are looking for, falling in Love with, or planning our lifetime commitment to & with another person think on the Love God had that he gave up his Only son for us.

The world we live in is so perverted with saying FREE LOVE—or just live together & see if it works out, & there are many other excuses people make to try to justify the lifestyle they have chosen to live.

Genesis 2:18: And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him. (Wife)

Genesis 2:21&22&23: And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

Genesis 2:24, 25: Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. (All KJV)

(Man & Woman) (They were created to be as they were born, Man, or Woman) (Man with Woman & NOT MAN WITH MAN OR WOMAN WITH WOMAN!) This WAS not Gods plan with creation, never was, & never will be!

Psalms 102:18: This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD. (KJV)

"We were created in the likeness of God, to serve God, and God only!" So as you are planning this new life to be joined together in Love with another person stay in touch with your heart!

Walk in Love is the best advice I can give — the Love walk is never becoming a door mat to be walked on & misused, but to find your soul mate & have LOVE in your life. Love will make you happy & will get you through any situation in your life. There is POWER IN TRUE (REAL) LOVE.