February is the month designated for love. It is everywhere leading up to the great holiday of Valentine’s Day. Forget the commercialization of the date, and give some consideration to the need our culture has for this topic…

The statistics are terrifying. Forbes published some updates in August of 2023 with a view to 2024.

Around half of all marriages end in divorce. What are you doing to prevent it from happening to yours? Success in any realm does not happen by accident. For any relationship to work, two people must be committed to the mission. This month we will spend some extra time thinking about this great subject.

Let’s start here… Commit to following God’s pattern for marriage, no matter what happens… Read the blueprint for marriage.

Genesis 2:18-25:

18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.” 19 And out of the ground the Lord God formed every animal of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. 20 The man gave names to all the livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him. 21 So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. 22 And the Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. 23 Then the man said,

“At last this is bone of my bones,

And flesh of my flesh;

She shall be called ‘woman,’

Because she was taken out of man.”

24 For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. 25 And the man and his wife were both naked, but they were not ashamed.¹

Man’s aloneness was not good. God’s solution was woman and marriage. This is a divine institution and worthy of our great appreciation. Do you appreciate your marriage like you should?

¹  New American Standard Bible. La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 2020.