Seems like "new spouses"

are the national pastime these days, or at least 50 percent of Americans

felt that way.

I saw a bumper sticker the

other day that stated: "For Sale, X Wife, Take Over Payments!."

My wife, Dee, and I attended

a wedding ceremony up north a few years ago and the wedding vows, if you

could call them that, went something like this. There was not a shred

of till death do us part, or in sickness and in health, or in good times

or bad, or anything old-fashioned like forsaking all others. The key phrase

that stuck out in my mind was the "as long as we both shall LOVE."

In other words, if on any given

day you wake up and look over at your spouse and have "no love for

him or her," the marriage is null and void. Guess what, that is exactly

what happened to the marriage! Strange, isn't it, that sometimes we get

what we ask for no vows, no commitment, no marriage!

In fact the Bible talks about

a personality without God. In Galatians 5:19 it speaks of the deeds of

the flesh being evident which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry,

sorcery, enmities, strife, jealously, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissentions,

factions, envyings, drunkenness, carousings. Does any of this sound familiar

in today's marriages?

There is a wonderful, wonderful

"new spouse remedy." If you seriously want a new spouse, I would

recommend the old one, with a twist of fruit fruit of the Spirit that

is. How would you like to have a spouse that most of the time had: LOVE,

JOY, PEACE, PATIENCE, KINDNESS, GOODNESS, FAITHFULLNESS, GENTLENESS, AND

SELF CONTROL?

This is all found in God's

formula for your spouse no matter how sorry he or she currently is. This

is all found in God's word in Galatians in the fifth chapter. Isn't it

interesting that people today want to re-invent all the values of God

and then wonder why in the world their lives are falling apart?

Vow today to press into God

and read his formula for marriage. What a spiritually novel idea!

The Rev. Dr. Knox Herndon is

the pastor of His House Community Church (SBC) and a former Army chaplain.

The church is just below Senoia on Ga. Highway 85, about a mile south

of Ga. Highway 16, just below the fire station. Visitors welcome. Church

office and prayer line 770-719-2365; e-mail [email protected].

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