If you're not married, you're going to be glad you're not married - yet. If you're married, you're going to learn how to stay married and if you've been divorced, you'll probably understand why it happened. This piece covers everybody.


Today, I want to focus on the successful laws of marriage. We are going to rediscover the authority of the marriage covenant and I want to begin with what I called the "paradox of marriage." Here are some of the greatest paradox of marriage.


1. Marriage is the greatest attraction and distraction: Everybody seem to want to get married, at-least most of us have the desire to get married but the problem is, marriage can become a big distraction to you if you don't do it right.


2. Marriage is the most beautiful danger in life: How can something be beautiful and dangerous? That's marriage - it's beautiful but it's dangerous.


3. Marriage is the greatest source of joy and frustration: There are married couples who are reading this right now. On the wedding day it was so exciting, few weeks later, you're wondering if you made a mistake. Joy and frustration.


4. Marriage is the most precious dream and nightmare one could have: 'Oh, I can't wait to walk down the aisle in my beautiful dress (cute tuxedo), I can't wait to start building a family of my own.' 'I just need some breathing space, will someone just wake me up?.'


5. Marriage is the greatest source of hope and fear: This is because we are not sure we are going to make it. No one get married free of butterflies, no matter how much you think you're in love, when you have to walk down that aisle, your questions are 'am I going in the right direction?' 'Am I doing the right thing?' 'Do I know what am doing?.'


So here's my conclusion: Marriage is an option given by God. What do I mean by that? First of all, marriage was created by God, it is His product but it's an option. It means, marriage is not necessary to fulfill God's purpose for your life. You can fulfill God's will and His purpose for your life without being married. So don't spend all your life looking for someone to marry and forget to live God's will.

You should be preoccupied fulfilling God's will or preparing to fulfill it rather than consuming your time chasing the prospect of marriage. In other words, marriage is a choice and not mandatory. There are many people in history and also biblical characters who did great works for God and were not married.

The first thing I made mention in this piece was this, marriage is an attraction but it is also a distraction i.e. Marriage can enhance your destiny or destroy it. There are people who were doing well until they got married. They were on course with their life, they have their own vision, they have every goal set, they had their career on track, everything was in order, they were zealous for God, they knew their purpose, they were passionate for their dream, they were organized and their life was descent until they got married. But now, they are confused, lost, frustrated, they don't know what to do anymore.

Here's what marriage is: Marriage is such a beautiful idea, only God could've thought of it. It is the very first institution created by God. If you read the Bible, you'll notice it doesn't begin with Church, Government or Education. Therefore, God's institution is only successful by Heaven's standard. A successful marriage is only possible within God's Kingdom Culture therefore, His product must be within His specification.



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