I would like to share with you a tiny flyer from BGEA (Billy Graham Evangelistic Association) that was mailed to me this February 2015. It has a title: TRUE LOVE.
Even though Billy Graham's wife, Ruth Bell Graham, has been dead for years (she died in June 2007), humble Billy never ceases to share the beautiful marriage he had with his wife, (thus, this sharing: I can't help but share it with you, too.)
"Happily Incompatible!
Ruth and I didn't have a perfect marriage, but we had a great one. In a perfect marriage, everything is always the finest and best imaginable; like a Greek statue, the proportions are exact and the finish is unblemished. Who knows any human beings like that? The unblemished ideal exists only in "happily ever after" fairy tales. I think that there is some merit to a description I once read of a married couple as "happily incompatible." Ruth liked to say, "If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary."
The most important truth we need to know about marriage is that God gave it to us. True love is an act of the will---a conscious decision to do what is best for the other person instead of ourselves. That is why marriage involves commitment, the commitment of a man and a woman to each other for as long as they both shall live. Do you want to know what love is? Look at Jesus Christ. He puts us first instead of Himself---and that's what true love does.
Marriage is God's invention, not ours! Society didn't establish it; God did.
Billy Graham"
Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Philippians 2:3, NKJV
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