INTRODUCTION

Even the best of homes experience times when trouble arises. Unfortunately, few homes seem to possess the willingness to endure those difficulties which arise. Though divorce is often viewed as a solution to resolve marital and family problems, it generally further complicates an already unstable situation. It is the Devil and not God who convinces couples that divorce could solve the problems created by sin or life’s inherent difficulties. Every home faces troublous times, but those homes built upon a love for the Lord seek to work through the trouble with their ultimate objective of glorifying the Lord. Rarely today do couples determine to endure the difficulties presented in the early years of marriage in order to find the joys of growing old together. These relationships lack the character to patiently wait as beauties of old age arise from the battles of youth.

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHTS

• (For children): Every marriage will experience 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); however, 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 so that they may 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).
• (For everyone): 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 experienced had you decided to divorce rather than work 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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