During a rebellious time in his life, Lauren Matthews was looking for an excuse to divorce his wife.

So I finally found a so-called Christian counselor, but he said you're under your wife's control and you need to get out of this.

Around the same time, his wife was getting some advice of her own.

Christian people were calling me and knocking on my door,

and it was almost like, yippee, your husband's committing adultery. Now you can get a divorce.

This is the Revivar Our Hearts podcast for Thursday, February 5th, 2015.

God is a faithful covenant-keeping God. He keeps his promises. Even if we're faithless,

he remains faithful. And human marriage is supposed to picture the faithfulness of God,

the love of God. Marriage presents a picture of the plan of

redemption, Christ's love for his bride. And because God is a covenant-keeping God, that's why it's

right to reflect that heart of God by keeping our covenant in the marriage relationship.

Over the next several days, we'll hear a story about a wife

who believes in the covenant of marriage and made some really tough choices to live out that belief.

Now, I know a story like this can be painful to listeners who are struggling in a difficult

marriage. So as you listen, I hope you'll do a few things. Number one, be inspired by the picture

of commitment and forgiveness that we'll see in the story over the next four days. Second,

realize that the specifics of your situation may be quite different from the couple in this story.

If you'd like help in your circumstance, I want to encourage you to go to our website,

revive our hearts.com, and we'll link to some additional programs on this topic and give you

the chance to evaluate the scripture for yourself. Number three, if you're in a struggling

marriage, don't struggle alone. Get help from your pastor or from a mature Christian sister or from an older couple in your church.

Well, the story begins in 1962 at a camp ministry in Baltimore, Maryland.

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