[My awesome, loving and wonderful Grandchildren, whom I love and pray for every day… “Therefore, a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh…WHAT THEREFORE GOD HAS JOINED TOGETHER, LET NOT MAN SEPARATE.” (Mat 19:5-6)
[Debbie and I went to her home in Marina, California in January 1975 to celebrate her 21st birthday and so I could meet her parents and ask for her hand in marriage. Dad asked me to preach on Sunday Morning and on our way to a hospital visit later that day I asked for their blessing to marry Debbie. I was just a couple weeks of turning 32, had been previously married, had two daughters (Wendy and Maria who I had a reunion with in June (2014) as my grandson Chad was married), and was a little nervous. Dad had a long talk with me about all the disadvantages we were facing but the said to me if this was what we felt God wanted for us that I would be just like one of his own son’s, and then he reminded me that:]
“Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? YOU ARE NOT YOUR OWN; you were bought at a price. Therefore, HONOR GOD WITH YOUR BODIES.” (1 Corin. 6:19-20)
[So on March 1st 1975 Dad married Debbie and I became part of an amazing family, had a new Mom and Dad, and in just a couple weeks we’ll celebrate our 42nd wedding anniversary!]
“He who finds a wife FINDS WHAT IS GOOD and receives favor from the LORD.” (Prov. 18:22)
[Thank you for your favor in our marriage.] “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy…In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.” (Eph. 5:25-28)
REMEMBER: LOVE YOUR WIFE WITH THE LOVE OF CHRIST!!!
Be blessed as you praise The Lord, knowing that:
WHEN YOU FIND A WIFE, YOU FIND A GOOD THING AND OBTAIN FAVOR FROM THE LORD!
Notice it says: […We must understand that the bible says: “YOU ARE NOT YOUR OWN; you were bought at a price. Therefore, HONOR GOD WITH YOUR BODIES.”!!!] That’s for you: Stephanie, Ethan, Camden, Olivia, Aidan, Landon and Kinsley