Marriage Commitment

wouldn’t back Isobel. And he didn’t hire anyone else, sending all the domestic duties on her. Other issues soon arose. For a long time the marriage was painful and stressed.

But John and Isobel were committed to the Master. They were committed to personal spiritual maturity and to working and maintaining the relationship, however difficult it seemed.

Furthermore, Isobel admitted that she had nowhere to go. She often walked out on John, but in that remote region on the Chinese-Thai border, there was nowhere for her to go.

The two finally built a satisfying, fulfilling marriage. Near the end of her life, Isobel wrote these words: I feel many modern marriages are wrecked on just sharp shoals as this. A human weakness is pointed out. The correction is resented.

Argument grows bitter. Young people are not ready to forgive, not willing to endure. Divorce is too quickly seized upon as the way out. [But] to pray God to awaken the other person, to be patient until he does so-this is God’s way out.

And it molds the two opposite natures into one invincible whole.