Everyone knows that one of the most contentious issues in many marriages is wife and mother in law relationships and as Christians wives and mothers-in-laws, we should do everything possible to meet each other where we are at to make life and the family home peaceful – after all – which mother in law will have your perfect ideals, and which wife will have your exacting child-rearing standards?

Well regarding fathers in law, someone once said;

“If you marry a child of the Devil, you’ll have a lot of problems with your father in law”

Christian looking to marry a non-Christian? Gravity is NOT on your side!

I will guarantee you this will be a problem if you attempt to marry someone who is unreformed in the hope they will become reformed. It will likely never happen as the reforming need to be done – BEFORE marriage – and of their own will – not yours!

Why? Because the playing field of a Christian believer and an non-Christian unbeliever is not equal – so you simply can’t win the struggle. The unbeliever is under the table pulling you down, and you’re on the table trying to pull them up – who will win? It’s clear who will win – the person with gravity of the world on their side. The believer will end up compromising all kinds of areas and regret it for the rest of their lives.

Don’t pick an uphill battle you can’t win

So – don’t even think about marrying a non-Christian husband of wife if you are a man or woman of God. This is not about being divisive or bigoted or unfeeling or judgemental – the advice here is almost entirely practical.

Do you want a serious headache for the rest of your married life? And then all the problems and arguments over how and what the children are taught and brought up?