How Bible Principles Apply to Your Life - Applying Bible Principles in an Ungodly World

MAN is faced with problems that consistendly seem to grow more critical instead of being solved: broken marriages, delinquency and crime, friction between employers and employees, loneliness, and fear of nuclear war-and these things on such a scale that they seem to engulf  all mankind. But it is necessary for your life to be marred by these woes simply because they are characteristic of our times?  Happily, the Bible points out a better way, not only directing attention to life in God's righteous new world, but showing us how to live right now in the midst of this ungodly world in such a way as to enjoy security, contentment and happiness.

It is evident that the problems to be met are great.  For example, notwithstanding all her Bibles and churches, Amercia is called "the most divorced and most delinquent country in the world."  It has been estimated that some 10,000,000 living Americans have been divorced.  One in every four marriages end in divorce.  Something is obviously wrong.  The Bible contains the answer to the situation, but for you to benefit you must do more than possess a Bible; you must apply its counsel.

For success in marriage it is essentential to recognize that it is a divine institution.  When  husband and wife accept the fact they reinforce the marriage bond, because they realize that they are accountable to someone higher than themselves.  Their marriage bond becomes a responsibility before God.  With  this view of marriage, husbands and wives, if dedicated to this God, respond to the command:  "Let  marriage be honorable amng all, and the marriage bed be without defilement,  for God will judge fornicators and adulterers." (Hebrews 13:4)  They are drawn together in love. Gudied by Bible princples, Christian husbands 'love their wives as their own bodies,' and Christian wives  are 'in subjection to their husbands as to the Lord."  This makes for mutual cooperation and security in the marriage relationship. - EPHESIANS 5:21-28.

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