Bruce C Hafen’s talk titled “Covenant Marriage” had so many excellent points in it. Each point is as true today as it was nine years ago when the talk was given. I loved one of the quotes in the beginning about a bride telling her mother that she was at the end of her troubles and her mother replied “yes, but at which end?” I hear all too often couples talking about marriage as if they have nothing more to worry about. I may sound like a broken record, but marriage is hard and takes a lot of effort from both husband and wife! This brings me to the next idea in this talk that those in a contractual marriage often give only fifty percent to their spouse whereas those in a covenant marriage give one hundred percent. Now, it is unfair to assume that ALL couples outside of the Church marry only for benefits and will flee when they are no longer receiving them, but it would seem that in our world today, that is all too common. It is unfortunate that more people don’t view their marriage as binding and eternal. We can choose to have this perspective and work through and trials together with our spouse and come out stronger because of it or we can flee in hopes that we will be happier, but there truly is no guarantee.
With our loving Heavenly Father there to love and guide us, I know that we can make it through our trials. If we strive to seek His guidance in all things and work hard to draw closer to Him, we will in turn draw closer to each other as we learned in Elder Bednar’s talk. Also in Elder Bednar’s talk is a principle on Satan’s desire for us to be miserable just like he is. Satan is definitely succeeding in doing this in our world today. He is normalizing and rationalizing the things we all once thought to be bad. He is the best at causing confusion.
“For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints” 1 Corinthians 14:33
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