figuring out for each of us what our pros and cons are in a situation and then coming together

and having a conversation. And for me, I know that sometimes my decisions can come out of fear.

And so I have to be careful not to consider something or try and make a decision out of fear.

So when I come with my ideas and you come with your ideas and we sit down and talk about it, we can point those things out to each

other. And then we can say, okay, Lord, this is this is what we have come together. Please show us,

give us wisdom in this. And if we're way off track, we need to know that. If we're going

in the right direction and you have a plan here, then we want to know that as well. And so it's

really, it's considering one another, but it's above that seeking the Lord's will. Howdy Mark

and Grace Driscoll here with the Real Marriage podcast. We're looking at marriages in the book of Genesis.

And this is part two on Adam and Eve, of course, first married couple in the history of the world.

And the question is, how can you and your spouse have God over your marriage?

And sometimes people want God in their marriage, but they don't want God

over their marriage. Like they want God to come alongside, but they don't want him to... They want the

blessing, but they don't want him to rule over. Yeah, they don't want to be under his authority. And so

what we see in Genesis is the first wedding. And so it's a prototype. Anytime there's a prototype, then everything else gets

built off of the prototype. And so this is the prototype for marriage. We see that it's one man,

one woman. It's a covenant with God that is consummated sexually. And one way to look at the great book of Genesis is a series of case studies on family

dynamics.

What a lot of sociological or psychological journals will do, they'll do case studies.

And they'll look at people and they'll extrapolate lessons positive and negative from

their life.

That's kind of our approach to Genesis.

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