I am reading lately about “Giving Families a Lift”, about “Marriage Repair” and “restarting your stalled relationship”.

We surely need a lift, we surely need to be lifted out of the slimy pit by the LORD! David, the psamist, is praising the Lord, that he lifted him out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire. The Lord set the feet of David on a rock. The Lord gave David a firm place to stand on. Psalm 40:2,3 The Lord Jesus Christ is our rock, our firm place , our foundation. First Corinthians 3:11 says: “For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid which is Jesus Christ.” (Please learn that verse off by heart!)

Families need to be brought from death to life, father, mother and the children. Romans 6:13 There has to be a ‘once’ and a ‘but now’, for all the members of a family. Ephesians 5:8 Once darkness, but now light in the Lord Jesus Christ. A question: Have you been called out of darkness into the wonderful light of the Lord Jesus Christ? Read First Peter 2:9!

We all must come into a living relationship with our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Once we have a living relationship with our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, we understand the BIBLE, his Word. It is no longer like any other book on the bookshelf  for us. It is alive for us! Praise the Lord!

All the many promises in the Bible become meaningful to us as well. I like the promise in Colossians 1:17 where it says: “He is before all things, and in HIM all things hold together.”

The Lord Jesus Christ is holding relationships together, he is holding marriages together.

Where is the place where the marriage relationship is held together? Under the cross. Nowhere else!