Cord of Three Strands | Part 1

By: Jenifer Metzger

Has your marriage been hard lately? Does if feel like you and your husband are being attacked on every end? Do you wonder if the two of you are even going to make it? Friend, marriage is hard period, but the enemy is after your marriage. The enemy is working double time to attack marriages, especially Christian marriages.

When we enter into marriage, there are three parts: you, your husband, and God. As you marry, these three parts become closely braided together. But when marriage gets hard, we have to pause and ask ourselves one very important question; has the third strand been pulled out?

And if someone overpowers one

person, two can resist him. A cord

of three strands is not easily broken.

Ecclesiastes 4:12 CSB

When we are knit together, all three parts, we are strong, not easily broken. But when that third strand -God- is pulled out, we are weak, open for attack.

A few years back my husband came a little too close to major injury, even death, all because of a weakened rope. He works construction, often on tall buildings, and he takes every precaution he can including being tied off. But one day a strand in his rope broke. This broken strand caused the rope to become weaker and weaker, almost completely breaking in two. Had he not caught it, he could have fallen to his death minutes later.

Friends, that third strand, God, is vital, life saving even, to your marriage. If your marriage is missing the third strand, it is time to rebraid it and add God back in.

Come back next week for part two where we talk about how to put God back into your braid.

Discussion:
1. Think about your marriage lately. Has there been an attack? Is the enemy kicking you and your husband hard?
2. Now think of your cord. Is there three strands: you, your husband, and God? Or has one of the strands been removed?