Firewall your marriage provides a practical approach using biblical principles to safeguard your marriage proactively so you never separate even emotionally throughout your married life. As you read you will know what to do exactly to ensure your marriage is protected with a guarantee. You will be able to assess if your marriage is in the safe zone or risky zone. Anyone at any stage of their marriage can pick this book and introspect where they stand and make course correction. Strongly recommended for newly married or those with small children.
Firewall your marriage gives you a formula in the form of a security matrix box that you can objectively assess your marriage and exactly pin point the problem in your marriage and work on that specific aspect that is weak and continue to build that which is strong
section 3 - Assessing risk in your marriage
The 2020 global Covid-19 pandemic will be forever etched in our memories. Each person who lived through the pandemic has different experiences to share, and the many waves and variants of the virus taught us many lessons. But some things never changed throughout the pandemic. Among these were the protocols of wearing a mask, social distancing, and sanitizing of hands. Many people were infected with the virus because they didn’t follow these three protocols.
In other words, there were security lapses. To avoid infection, you had to follow all three instructions. If any one of the three protocols was left out, you were quite likely to get infected. Many people caught the virus because of their own carelessness. They often didn’t know when or where it happened.
The three pillars for securing your marriage—growing in intimacy with God, growing in intimacy with your spouse, and prayer cover for marriage—are much like the protocols for avoiding Covid-19 (that both are three in number is only coincidental!). These three pillars build the firewall around your marriage. If all three are present in a married couple, it's impossible to breach the marriage. But if any of the three pillars are missing, the marriage is likely to be weakened because of the lack of security.
Sometimes only one of the three pillars may be weak or completely missing. At other times, two may be weak or missing. These missing pillars expose the marriage to danger, placing it at risk. Marriages on the verge of a breakup often have all three pillars weak or completely broken.
No one consciously exposes their marriage to risk and danger. In the busyness of life, a couple may not even know their marriage is under attack, just as so many were attacked by the Covid-19 virus without even knowing it was happening. Only in hindsight would they recognize where they might have been infected and what protocol they’d left out to be contaminated.