This Momentary Marriage
My father-in-law got my wife and I the Marriage Gift Set from Desiring God for Christmas. The set includes
- This Momentary Marriage: A Parable of Permanence (Book)
- Velvet Steel (Poetry Book)
- Marriage, Christ, and Covenant: One Flesh for the Glory of God (Audio CDs)
Each chapter in Momentary Marriage corresponds to a sermon on the CD. The main book and the sermons are all available for free on Desiring God.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer is quoted at the beginning of each chapter and Piper ends his introduction with a quote from page 32 of Letters and Papers from Prison by Bonhoeffer.
“Welcome one another . . . for the glory of God.” That is God’s word for your marriage. Thank him for it; thank him for leading you thus far; ask him to establish your marriage, to confirm it, sanctify it, and preserve it. So your marriage will be “for the praise of his glory.
This is what Joy and I are looking for and needing right now. One of Pipers premises in the book is that marriage, no matter how amazing or horrible, is a picture of Christ and the Church. Some better then others, but a picture of Christ and the Church all the same.
We recently confessed to each other that we have both in large degree simply fallen into the motions of marriage and parenting and everything else and have lost much of our joy in who God is. Simply put we think our marriage has become stagnint because our view of Him has as well. We’d love your prayers and encouragement as we attempt to lay aside all of our silly attempts at finding short-cuts to lesser joys that in the long run have left her and I so unsatisfied.
