Yesterday I heard a great comment on the Puritans and their view of marriage. It went something like this. "Today we marry because we 'fall in love'. In those days, they 'fell in love' because they got married.
In our time marriage is all about me and what I can get from life in general and from marriage in particular. Marriage is about me and if I stop getting I leave the marriage. I have seen this on several occasions, yea even recently.
Yes, Mr. T. "fell in love" prior to marrying, but I will say that I didn't know what love meant then like I do now. Next week marks my 4 year wedding anniversary and I must say that God has used my marriage to change me a little more from that selfish man I once was into someone that is a little more like Christ. Marriage has a way of doing that as two sinful people find themselves sharing their lives in the most intimate ways.
So for those of you looking to marry, be wary of the whole "falling in love" thing. Rather choose to love the person that God brings you and you will find the joy that you'll never receive by living for yourself.
Mr. T.
About Me
- Tim Tuinstra
- I currently teach electrical engineering at Cedarville University in Ohio. My interests include signal processing and image processing and especially applications of these technologies to the field of medicine.
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