What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written:
“For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
I was just listening to a news podcast, and they said that 47% of Gen Z are getting a prenuptial agreement drawn up before marriage, a record high. I think prenuptial agreements are wrong in the fact that you should, and I did, go into marriage with a divorce is not an option mentality. If you build an escape clause into it, it shows that no matter how committed you say you are to that person, there is always the exit strategy in place.
Marriage is a picture of salvation in the Bible. We believers are called the bride of Christ and He is coming back for His bride. Jesus said that no one can snatch us out of His hand. Once we are married to Him, there is no divorce. Paul says in Romans 8 that He will never lose His love for us. You hear people say things like "we fell out of love" or "we no longer love each other". That is something you will never hear Jesus say. There is nothing that could make Him love us less.
When I "asked Jesus into my heart", there was no pre-nup. There was no exit strategy, there was no safety net, there was no "Plan B'. I jumped in headfirst and He did, too. As John Daly once said in regard to his alcoholism, "Quitters are losers and I'm no loser." I'm not a quitter and neither is He and our marriage keeps getting better and stronger with that level of commitment. Nothing can separate me from the love of Christ!
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