Marriage isn't a test drive

Every time I hear about another celebrity divorce, I get sad. I didn't know Sandra and Jesse or Tiger and Elin personally, but I still feel sad when I hear about their marital problems. I pray for them whenever I hear their names on the radio or while I'm flipping channels.

I know they choose to live their lives in the spotlight, etc. - I don't want to go there. I just know that divorce is a painful thing - for celebrities and for people I know.

I was just reading an article today on http://www.boundless.org/ – it was about dating but I paraphrased a bit because I really think it applies to all relationships:

“Too often, in dating/marriage relationships, we think and act like consumers rather than servants. And not very good consumers at that.

"After all, no one would ever go down to his local car dealership, take a car out for an extended test drive, park it in his garage, drive it back and forth for several weeks or years, having put lots of miles on it, and then take it back to the dealer and say, ‘This car just isn’t for me.’"

So are you a consumer in your relationship? Only concerned about your needs and constantly on the lookout for something better?

Or are you a servant, committed sacrificially in love?