INTRODUCTION

Even the best of homes will be acquainted with trouble. Unfortunately, few homes possess the strength to endure the difficulties of life. Rather than a further complication of the problems, divorce is seen as the solution. The Devil convinces couples that divorce will solve the problems created by sin or common life circumstances. Every home has trouble, but the home that loves the Lord seeks to work through the trouble in order to glorify the Lord. Rarely do couples determine to endure the difficulties presented in the early years of marriage in order to find the joys of growing old together. They lack the character to patiently await as the battles of youth become the beauties of old age.

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHTS

• (For smaller children) Every marriage will have troubles (1 Corinthians 7:28But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.
  See All...c). There is no trouble that cannot be worked out (Ephesians 4:32And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
  See All...). God wants a husband and wife to stay together and rejoice in old age (Proverbs 5:18Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
  See All...b; Ecclesiastes 9:9Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
  See All...a).
• Are you married? If so, how long have you been married? Is your marriage stronger today than it was at the beginning? What are some blessings you would not have had had you decided to divorce rather than working through your troubles?
• What are some troubles you presently deal with in your home? Does the Devil try to convince you that divorce is the solution?

PRAYER NEEDS

• Ask the Lord to protect your home from divorce.
• Ask God to give you the character to endure troubles.

HYMN

Grace Greater Than Our Sin

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