I Surrender All - "My Marriage"

"I Surrender My Marriage"

 Dr. Gary Singleton

Last Sunday we started a sermon series called “I Surrender All.” We talked about what it means to surrender your life to Jesus. This Sunday we will turn our attention to marriage and what it means to surrender your marriage to God and allow Him to make your marriage what He created it to be.

Now when it comes to marriage it’s easy to set the bar too high and expect something near perfection. We believe God expects us to never fight, always listen, and keep the house spotless. If that’s the standard we try to live up to, then most of us would just give up.

But it’s also easy to set the bar too low. Some people think when it comes to their marriage they just have to do their best and hope everything works out. But that doesn’t hold us accountable and bring out our best effort. Setting the bar too low is even more damaging to our marriage than setting it too high.

So as we talk about surrendering our marriage to God this week, we’re not going to do either of those things. Instead we’re going to set the bar right where God set it. As we look at the story of Hosea and Gomer found in Hosea 3, we will see that God sets the bar at unconditional love.

I hope you will join me Sunday as we learn from Hosea that we are expected to mirror God’s unconditional love for us by loving others unconditionally.