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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

“Sacred Marriage: A Mirror on Sin”

(part 1 of 2)

“Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sowed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.”

Genesis 3:7


I think everyone who gets married experiences two “Adam & Eve” moments in their relationship. Like, Adam and Eve, we start out living what we believe to be the ideal relationship with the ideal person until one day our eyes are opened to just how exposed we are to this other person. In the story of Adam and Eve, everything seemed to be going good for our happy couple. Then one day their eyes were opened and suddenly they realized they were naked. Immediately they began to cover themselves and hide themselves from one another.

What was it that caused Adam and Eve’s eyes to be opened? The answer is Sin! Sin entered the world and one of the initial consequences was a breakdown in marital intimacy. As Adam and Eve’s weaknesses were uncovered, it wasn’t long before they felt funny being exposed to one another and shortly thereafter they began pointing the finger at each other.

There is nothing that opens the eyes of two people in a relationship more than when they experience or see “sin” in their spouse’s life. It isn’t difficult because we thought the person we married was “above” that, it stings because we realize if I can see that in them…they can see things in me too!

I love this quote by Gary and Betsy Ricucci taken from the book Sacred Marriage:

“One of the best wedding gifts God gave you was a full-length mirror called your spouse. Had there been a card attached, it would have said, “Here’s to helping you discover what you’re really like.”



Marriage holds up a mirror to our sin! As I gaze into the “full length” mirror called my spouse, I am forced to look at all the flaws in MY character, faced with MY own selfishness and struck by MY own poor attitudes.

Kathleen Thomas Hart wrote that, “Sometimes what is hard to take in the first years of marriage is not what we find out about our partner but what we find out about ourselves.”



(This marriage series was developed from principles taken from the book “Sacred Marriage” by author Gary Thomas.)


Pastor Scott Burr
http://faithandworshipseries.blogspot.com

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