Your Beliefs

Why do you believe what you do?  Really...ask yourself.  Why do you believe in standing for your marriage?  Why are you purposing to bring restoration to your marital situation?  Why do you believe...anything?

Is it because of how you were raised?  Or did you come to your set of beliefs through some sort of fiery trial?  Maybe you heard someone teach on something and really liked it?  Maybe you REALLY like us (C'mon...you know you do) and want to believe like we do?  Or did your set of beliefs come through divine revelation from God?

One of these may be your source for your beliefs, however, for most people none of these are the reason.  For most people have learned their beliefs and chose their road in life from popular culture.  They have left the foundational truths taught by generations past for the complex simplicity of doing what everyone else is doing.  They do not look to God for wisdom on how to proceed in life.  And, God forbid, that someone else say something that would challenge their beliefs and stretch them into growing.

I think that is one of the reasons that we write this blog.  We have been challenged to grow and we are constantly being pushed to rethink our positions on touchy subjects.  Some things we have changed our views on; others we have become more resolute in our thinking.

I (Josh) was driving in the car the other day and was kind of thinking about some of this stuff.  It all started by listening to some preacher on the radio use a word (correctly) and then thinking about how often people use words incorrectly or use words that are not really words at all.  I know, it seems like quite a stretch but I will try to bring it full circle...

The word "regardless" is an actual word.  The word "irregardless" is NOT a word.  Recently, it has been added to acceptable language because EVERYONE uses it and no one is correcting them on what the proper word is.

The contraction "ain't" is technically not a proper contraction.  It has become accepted because, again, lots of people using it....very few people correcting the masses.  All the other contractions are the combination of two words made shorter.  What words make up "ain't"?

Popular culture is telling people that it is OK to use poor grammar and nonexistent words to convey their message.  Rather than keeping the standards of language high, we lower the bar and accept a soft language instead of one where people have extensive vocabularies to make their point.

This is not only evident in our language but (since this IS a marriage restoration blog) also in the area of marriage, divorce, separation, sexuality, parenting, and roles of the sexes.  Instead of keeping a very high standard and pushing people to reach for higher and greater, we lower the bar and say, "It doesn't matter the reason, get divorced.  It's OK for you to be a single parent.  You can do it on your own."

Popular culture is telling us that it's normal to be divorced, normal to be a single parent, normal to need two incomes, normal to homosexual or bisexual, normal to be separated.  Popular culture is lying to us and telling us that it is normal to go against the God-ordained order of things.

Who is dictating what popular culture says, anyway?  It cannot be blamed on any one person or group.  It's not a Democrat or republican issue; it's not pro-choice or pro-life; it's not a race issue; it's not a church denomination problem.  You cannot solely blame music, movies, TV, or magazines on the state of the world.  Popular culture is basically a whole lot of people that are too lazy to climb to higher heights, and since they do not want to be alone in the depravity, they pull on the standards of sane and godly individuals to bring them down to their level.  Misery loves company!

Enough is ENOUGH!!  Well, we are here to push the bar higher.  We are a voice amongst a few others that are saying, "It's not OK to embrace the divorce mentality!  It's not normal to be a single parent!  It's not normal or OK to be promiscuous....in or out of marriage!"  Their has been too much of the popular culture propaganda being spewed on our ears, hearts, and spirits just to sit idly by and do nothing.  We have to strive for higher, for greater, for holiness.  We have to strive to have the heart of God and see things as He does.

We have to see that God is all about restoration, healing, and wholeness!  We have to see that God is on the side of your marriage...as ugly as it may seem right now!  We have to see that God desires to have a real relationship with His creation!  We have to see that your marriage and my marriage is a holy union and the devil wants nothing more than to destroy the image of holiness in the eyes of the world.  We have to see that God desires for their to be two parents to raise the next generation...one man and one woman!  We have to see God!

These things must be shouted from the rooftops so that the world can hear.  The world is morally decaying faster and faster everyday.  The world needs an awakening of people standing for their marriage that will not go quietly!  Will you join us in making His plan for marriage clear to the world?

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.  Edmund Burke

Do something....STAND!!!

Josh and Serena