9.10-What I've learned about marriage after 50 years.

9.10

What I've learned about marriage after being married 50 years.

Marriage is meant to help people focus on how to live in the present age.  Those who are worthy of living as married to Jesus in the next age are people who have learned that they are not worthy of any of God's holy life, except by the grace of God.


Sheila and I now know that we are not worthy of the blessings we have received.  These are a gift of God's grace.  He gave us both loving parents who both celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary.  We are not worthy of this blessing, but God provided it for us.

We know that only Jesus is a teacher for us who could take unworthy servants and keep us going with a new day of mercy every day.

We believe that the religion that Moses wrote about in the Old Testament was fulfilled by Jesus Christ perfectly for all of us and He paid off the debt of our sins.  My mother wrote about finally paying off her "Fridg" and because she had a coupon book she wrote the company and asked for a new coupon book.  The company wrote back and said, "Thank you Mrs. Wishard it's paid off." 

The reality is that on the cross all the beating up on us for lack of perfection is a debt that paid off on the cross.  God the Father and Jesus the Son and the Comforter the Holy Spirit wants all of us as couples to know that if we are believers in Jesus and followers of Him that we are blessed not because our marriage made it to a certain year, but because we are blessed to have become worthy through grace to be married spiritually to Jesus for Eternity.  How because of the grace and mercy of God.  That's why we are children of God and that's why we have been married for these 50 years. 

Luke 19.
²⁷ Some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus with a question. ²⁸ “Teacher,” they said, “Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. ²⁹ Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a woman and died childless. ³⁰ The second ³¹ and then the third married her, and in the same way the seven died, leaving no children. ³² Finally, the woman died too. ³³ Now then, at the resurrection whose wife will she be, since the seven were married to her?”
³⁴ Jesus replied, “The people of this age marry and are given in marriage. ³⁵ But those who are considered worthy of taking part in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage, ³⁶ and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels. They are God’s children, since they are children of the resurrection. ³⁷ But in the account of the burning bush, even Moses showed that the dead rise, for he calls the Lord ‘the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’^{[b] 38} He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.”
³⁹ Some of the teachers of the law responded, “Well said, teacher!” ⁴⁰ And no one dared to ask him any more questions.