Tone Lise Gustavsen writes about the value of long-term marriages in Dagen. You can also read the text here:
If we want to see a sustainable society, we must help the generations after us discover the power of love.
Students miss out on acquiring skills for how to make a relationship last. The genuine affection between parents needs to be modeled.
Values such as commitment and trustworthiness have been forgotten. For centuries, Christian values have been preached: faithfulness, honesty, and having a sexual partner within the framework of marriage.
The sexual revolution has erased these boundaries and torn sex and love apart. The ideal of a lifelong marriage between a man and a woman is possible to find, and worth striving for.
Cultural change will not solve spiritual problems. In a postmodern shift, Christians have become a minority. It turns out that tolerating sin and the world's way of thinking is not helpful to our faith, but rather that faith withers away within us. Then we must change the way we influence.
When Jesus is lifted up on high, morality, life, and change will come.
Culture is shaped by what people worship, so we must show who we worship. When Jesus is lifted up on high, morality, life, and change will come. What is sacred and valuable to us will be visible in our lives.
If we do not learn to honor God's arrangement before we are married, we will never reach its full potential. That marriage should be held in honor by all forces us to choose which relationship we value most.
There are secular marriages among Christians where they do not know that marriage comes with its own definition. We don't have the power to define marriage, but marriage can shape us to be more like God. He created the relationship between man and woman to draw them closer to Himself.
We often think that sexual promiscuity is the greatest threat to marriage, but in fact it is cohabitation. This is a counterfeit of the covenant, as it disregards the guidelines of the Bible. Marriage is God's most effective aid to sanctification.
Living in compromise can never create a holier life. Marriage should be held in honor by all – regardless of marital status,and most of all by people of faith!
