New Year's Eve - A Special Recognition

Today is our anniversary.  I thought I'd share something that I mentioned on our 30th Anniversary concerning marriage and the importance of right foundations in marriage.  God's Word has stood the test of time, and husband and wife who completely depend on God and His Word will also stand the test of time because of the Lord's Help.

What do you say or – how do you repay a lady that has spent 30 years of marriage with you?  God has truly blessed me with my wife Stephanie.  She married a young guy (I was 21 she was 20) who didn’t have a solid future, looking go get out of the service with his only education past Highs school was Marine grunt training (not very marketable back then).  Yet she did and has been a blessing to me for 30 years.  She has borne the hardest work, bearing three beautiful daughters whom we love; staying at home and raising them for the majority of our marriage, and serving God with me since day one and trusting her husband’s leading her halfway around the world even though she wasn’t always sure – she was always submissive and faithful to her husband and God in it.   

I thank God for you Stephanie and thank you for 30 great years together.

I will make a few suggestions to anyone else who is young and looking for a spouse?
Find your spouse in church.
Find a spouse who is already serving the Lord.
Find a spouse who is already a hard worker.
Find a spouse who is not an excuse maker.
Find a spouse who is not a quitter (a marriage of a man and woman with no quit in them is going to be successful).
Find a spouse who desires to be productive in the home and in the Lord’s service.
Find a spouse who you can love, loves you for who you are, and is also your best friend.
Find a spouse who gets more beautiful with the years (no guarantee of that, but I sure was blessed with such).

Thanks for 30 great years Stephanie, looking forward to the next 30 if the Lord tarries His coming."
  
By the way, today is our 31st.  

Pastor Mark Sage

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