Marriage and Scripture

 

Where are you getting your advice? 

 

A couple decided that they should do something together to strengthen their marriage. They decided to go duck hunting together. They’d heard of other people going duck hunting with dogs, so they figured they needed to buy a good hunting dog and buy the dog they did. They got all of their equipment and their dog and took off to go duck hunting for the day. They tried getting some ducks, but they came to the end of the day and hadn’t gotten one. The husband looked at the wife and said, “Honey, we’ve got to be doing something wrong here. We haven’t caught a duck yet.”

The wife said, “Well, maybe, if we throw the dog up a little higher, he can catch a duck this time.”

That’s what a lot of us are doing. We’re trying to get a dog to do what a gun was meant to do. We’re trying to accomplish things in our lives with tools that don’t work or don’t make sense. A dog is not the right weapon to get ducks. You need firepower to bring a duck down.

A lot of us have “hound dogs” trying to fix our marriage. We’re on the phone with “hound dog” girlfriends or guy friends. All they’re doing is barking us up into more mess. We’re doing everything but using firepower from heaven. It’s not that we’re not trying. The question is, what are we trying.

The Word of Christ must dwell in us richly. It has to be the basis of our decisions.

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Tony Evans.