Is it boring to struggle and argue about our faith?

I.Salvation, by Grace Through Faith


I cannot minimize the importance of a spiritual likemindedness, before entering into the marriage vow. If there was not a common spiritual upbringing, there cannot be common expectations.
Marriage, even in the most Christian assumptions of the word, is a merger of great expectations. We speak some of them in our words and we assume some of them in our deepest hopes.
Jesus is the basis for the commonality that we proclaim and exclaim in marriage. We are sinners, who have been purchased by the blood of Jesus. If a person is not aware of their need of the grace of God, it is difficult for him to see the importance of forgiveness in the marriage. You assume, first of all, that his/her hand will not hold you to the fire for small offenses. The assumption of grace is that forgiveness for small offenses will be observed in the light of the Grace that we have freely received in Christ.
It seems obvious that if a person has not accepted the grace of Jesus and is attempting to pay his/her own debt before God, they would expect you to pay for the offenses that you do to them, up to the payment of hell, if necessary. The person doesn’t say this. The unbelieving assumption is, this merger is until you make me uncomfortable.
Marriage, puts your soul in the hand of the other person. Our life and death and care and concerns are lent to the other person, while we are on the earth.
We could have everything in common, but the Grace of God and we really have nothing in common. We could have nothing in common, but the Grace of God and we have everything in common. The common standard, that heaven is our eternal destination is the course of our lives.
“Which way do we go?” is the question at every fork in the road. There will be a sign, toward heaven, or hell and if the common grace is not there, the argument at which way to go will come up, daily.
We get in the boat together and the course is set. If you think that you can reset the course, from hell to heaven easily, you are certainly deceived. A person can go to heaven, personally and live in a boat that is hell-bound. But the course of the boat that you enter into, in the marriage vow, is set by your common agreement.
The course to heaven is never, accidentally set upon. It is marked out and studied and a course that is difficult and charted carefully. When we get off course, we know it. When the clouds roll in and set us off, we are aware of it. When the clouds lift, we both look at eachother and say, which way is heaven. Not, which way do we go?><
The older we get, the more we joke about the lowering of the standard for marriage. We agree that it is a joke. He/she is heavenbound in his soul, or he/she is not for you, my daughter and son.