God Gave Me You

It is a guide for young couples who are facing marriage for the first time. Marriage is complicated. It is not meant to be easy like two young children playing house with the boy sitting at the tiny play kitchen table, and the girl, pouring a cup with pretend tea for him. And handing him a small plastic plate with a pretend meal which she has prepared on her toy stove. Then within the next few minutes the boy growing tired of this girlish stuff, gets up and goes and seeks some of the fellows to do something else much more fun. And the girl herself, now bored of the game, goes inside to spend some time with mum. No. Marriage is not like that at all. There are things beyond the romantic imagery in living real life together which can be anything but fun. In this book, 'God Gave Me You, ' we explore the realities of marriage. But we do so from a biblical perspective. Marriage was created and ordained by God from the very beginning. It is blessed and it is a wonderful estate enjoyed by two people who learn to face the pitfalls and place the other one first. But first only after God, for unless God is at the head of the marriage, the couple are missing out on the best their marriage can offer them. But the book does not deal only with the pitfalls and the problems. The joys of marriage are also celebrated. Indeed that is the purpose of marriage. Two people who's lives and hearts are now joined and who's desire is enjoy each other for life share in the joys of marriage. And together they overcome the rough edges. But not only is this book a guide for those couples new to marriage. Some have been married before, but because of divorce or even widowhood, they choose to enter marriage again. Now a whole new set of challenges face them. We touch on the challenge of blending families together. Children brought into a marriage from previous marriages, and other challenges. Challenges which if guided right, they can overcome. Not only for couples soon to be married, or just newly married, but for pastors and other marriage ministers, this book can be a source of material for pre-marriage counseling, or as we might as well say, pre-marriage preparation.