Our minds were very much provoked to think about what formed the basic foundation of a good marriage. That was how engaging the first meeting with our mentors was. We were made to realise that marriage is not just about happiness or feelings of love. For the Bible has taught us that the heart of marriage is: a covenant. Covenant marriage is about a lifelong covenant partnership, solemnly made before God, in which a man and woman agree to belong together as long as they both shall love. If one understands that, when a couple enter into a marriage, there is no divorce. To grow in a covenant marriage is to continually "renew" the covenant with one another. By deliberately recalling the vow and understand what it means, is a very much needed act in maintaining a covenant marriage. Example, in one part of the vow, it says, "..for better or for worst..", if we understand this, it is saying that during the hardest times of the marriage, we have made a promise before God to stand by each other. We are not to leave each other but to keep on solving our problems and trusting God to work out the reconciliation in our life. Reconciliation of the gospel is very important, as Christian couple, we will be practising that throughout our lives as partners.
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