The Great Divide

Blue Bell Ice Cream has an ice cream called "The Great Divide." It is half dutch chocolate and half french vanilla. Seeing an ice cream that is brought together as such is like that of marriage.

God brings two flavors together; husband and wife, which He said in Genesis 1 "It is good" (speaking about what He made). When going into marriage it is like the ice cream. Early on it is sweet and good, but as you keep eating, it starts to taste the same maybe even boring and by the time you get to eating too much you may have regrets and feel done with it. Marriage can be very much the same where if you go through the motions not savoring what God put together you may find yourself getting board, betrayed or come to the point of regrets and being done with it all.

DON'T BE DISTRACTED BY BY YOUR FEELINGS FOR WHAT GOD PUT TOGETHER! Look I know that marriage and relationships are hard, but do not doubt that which God brought together is wrong. He knows what He is doing in your life and the life of your spouse and family, don't doubt it for a second.

In the movie "War of the Roses" it starts out with a couple where things seem to be perfect, but as the movie goes on the little things start ruining the good things. One quote that Danny De Vito said in the movie was, in regards to a break down in a relationship, "It is not a matter of who wins, but how greatly you loose."

As the economy was good so also were so many marriages. Now that the economy is in the tank I have seen so many marriages and relationships just falling apart as well. I personally know at least a dozen couples or families in some stage of marital turmoil, separation or divorce. Go to the grocery store and look at the magazines, it has even touched Hollywood.

Over the next several weeks I will give some suggestions on how to survive the turmoil that awaits you if it has not already effected you and restore that which the devourer has stolen. Remember this, "What God has put together, let no one (person) separate." (Matthew 19:6). If you are ready to give up on your relationship, evaluate what you can do differently to make the situation better and try to see things from God's eyes.

CAL