Marriage struggles crowd to Christ

 In his excellent book Crowded to Christ L.E. Maxwell lays open how God brings difficulties into our lives in order to crowd us to himself.
Tami was in an agonizing place -- a difficult marriage.  But she didn't take her commitment lightly.  Though it felt like desert waste, she stayed.  And God crowded her to himself:

I used to depend so much on Tom for my happiness,” Tami said. “It took a death—the death of my marriage—so God could strip me of depending on anyone but Him. Then the gold came through, the gold of who Christ is, and of who I am in Him.

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The solution to marriage problems is not easy divorce.  It is Christ.