Commit To Your Marriage

Sometimes it takes a commitment to the marriage to survive the pot holes that will happen along the way. Marriage is not easy. It requires work, forgiveness, and compassion as well as commitment. We are all weak at times and without a commitment to the marriage it is easy to find yourself uncommitted to your spouse or your spouse uncommitted to you.
When we were courting we relied heavily on making ourselves attractive to each other. Whether that was physically, mentally, spiritually, or otherwise we sought to impress each other. We couldn't think about being separated. We thought all we wanted was to spend time together. However, something terribly magical happens once you get married. All that time you thought you would have together suddenly dries up and disappears. Work and or school begins to demand more time. Between church callings, work, and the lovely bill collectors, the stress begins to mount. Suddenly all those things you had in common get forgotten and all the things you ignored, didn't know, or didn't want to think about come to the surface exposing you to the less flattering qualities of your spouse. Then comes finances. Suddenly your spouse begins to look...shall we say...not so attractive. At this point we look in the mirror and we start to question our own attractiveness.
So many things happen that distract us from each other, including the world's definition of marriage and family. No wonder divorce becomes an easy solution to our hectic life.
Without a commitment to marriage it is easy to fall out of love and see breaking up your family as a solution to the lack of feeling love toward your spouse. When you are committed to the marriage you may fall in and out of the feeling of love a few times and as long as abuse is not involved you can still understand the importance of the marriage. What a commitment to marriage really is, is a commitment to the third personage of your marital covenant...The Lord.