Marital Problems

Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun--all your meaningless days. For this is your lot in life and in your toilsome labor under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 9:9
May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth. Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another man's wife?
Proverbs 5:18-20
The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.
1 Corinthians 7:3
Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.
In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
Ephesians 5: 22, 23, 25, 28
Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.
1 Peter 3:7
"For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh."
Ephesians 5:31

COMMENTARY

Marital problems...from time immemorial, when Eve first tried to control Adam's diet, until this day, male and female have been trying to figure out each other's psyche. Marriage can be one of life's sweetest blessings...or one of its most bitter curses. So what makes the difference? Why is one marriage a joy, and the next a constant threat to life and limb...and all levels in between?

My dear friends...a good marriage takes 3 people. Husband, wife, and the Lord. No marriage is complete without Him. God planned marriage. It was not society's idea. Husband and wife complement and complete each other. Living as equals in value and in differences. Together, with biological and personality differences, a unit is formed. There can be no unity without love. A marriage is not a competition, it is a relationship...one composed of 3 people..husband, wife, God. The guidelines given by the Lord for peace and love in the home are: sharing, communicating, loving, showing kindness and mercy, forgiveness. In the comflicts and differences that arise in every marriage, He suggested that husband and wife "submit to each other." Remembering always that masterpiece illustration of love...1 Corinthians 13. Which has to say:

Love...is slow to lose patience--it looks for a way of being constructive.

Love...is not possessive.

Love...is neither anxious to impress nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own importance.

Love...has good manners.

Love...does not pursue selfish advantage.

Love...is not touchy.

Love...does not keep account of evil.

Love...does not gloat over the wickedness of other people, it is glad when truth prevails.

Love...know no limits to its endurance.

Love... knows no end to its trust.

Love...knows no fading of its hope.

Love...can outlast anything.

Billy Graham once said that among the couples who have faith in Jesus Christ, the divorce rate is one out of every 500 marriages, as contrasted to the average ratio today of one out of every two.

It takes three.