I have been awakened out of a deep sleep several times over the last six months or so due to a spiritual struggle I have been experiencing over a certain issue.  Last night, at 4:30 a.m., clarity resounded like a tolling bell on a crisp and silent night. 

There are two decisions one makes in life that are of utmost importance and that have the power to either bless or curse:

Who do you choose to believe in?
Who do you choose to marry?

John 3:16 ~ "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life."  If you choose to believe this in your heart, if you profess this with your mouth, and if you practice this in your life -- you will be blessed; if you choose not to, you have removed yourself from under God's protective covering, and His blessing will not be upon you.

2 Corinthians 6:14 ~ "Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness?"  If you are a believing, professing, practicing Christian, and you choose to marry someone who is not a believing, professing, practicing Christian, you have disobeyed God's command and have removed yourself from under His protective covering; His blessing will not be upon you.

As a mother of two daughters who have been raised in the Christian faith, it is my continuing and fervent prayer that they understand and obey both scriptures, that the blessing of God may fall on them always in this life and the next.