Is it okay to use extra biblical practices if they help me focus on God?

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questions at core Christianity.com. First up today, let's go to Timothy calling in from Kansas.

Timothy, what's your question for Adrile? Yes. The question I have for Adrio today is if two people are believers and they get married

and they weren't sure about the marriage or they rushed into it, and the marriage is consummated

after they're married, does God consider that to be the will of God for your life, even though it wasn't at the beginning? Does God still honor and bless a marriage such as that?

Timothy, thank you for that question. I mean, it sounds like, it sounds like this is a situation, I don't know if this is a situation that you're in or someone near to you.

But I would say that the answer to the question is, yes, even if these two individuals, two believers rushed into this marriage, for whatever reason, you know, I'm not sure what the reason is.

But if they're married and they've, you know, gone through the ceremony and the legal process and all that, that's something that has happened.

It's not that they're rushing into it invalidates or annuls their wedding, those vows that they took. And I would say, you know,

in God's providence, in this situation, you'd want to view it as, okay, we're married. We didn't know

maybe what we were doing entirely as we were going into it, but what we do know is that God

is faithful and God is good,

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