Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Morning Thoughts - Marriage

Hahas... the title of this blog entry seems a bit misleading after xiaoshi has typed it out.
hur hur hur... but thats not what ur focus should be at! ^^

Nowadays pple treat marriage... sigh.. Sadly.. its like they look down their noses at marriage. "What good is a piece of paper anyway?"

Well.. xiaoshi feels that actually, the wedding ceremony and the piece of paper mean a great deal. They are directly related to the Bible. The Bible reminds husbands how they ought to view their wives. It tells each husband to remember, "she is your companion and your wife by covenant" (Malachi 2:14).

The essence of marriage is a covenant. It is an agreement in which we make binding promises. Marriage is not sexual union. Teenagers may have sex. That is... fornication. Adults may have sex with someone not their spouse. That's not marriage either. It's adultery.

Marriage is a covenant relationship. A man and woman stand before God and among their friends. They exchange vows. They promise each other, before God, they will always be faithful to each other.

This covenant is a covenant of companionship. Husbands and wives promise to be fast friends and good companions. They promise to talk together about the ups and downs of life and to walk together through the good times and the bad times of life. They promise to be companions for life.

Xiaoshi was reading all these.. then came the realisation.
Its truely a sad thing that pple don't enter into a r/s with the right purposes in mind. What has happened to this generation? The selfish desires of one can actually lead to disasters to the upcoming generation. When would they start to think? Certainly.. immature pple are flooding the streets and its really a challenge not to be involved with them.