How to Prepare for Your Future Marriage

By the time a person becomes a teenager, he or she is wise to think ahead and make preparations for a fulfilling marriage.  Long before he finds the ideal partner, he should be living his life to become an ideal partner.  That includes remaining a virgin.  Saving yourself for your future mate is a priceless gift to give to that person!  This is part of loving your future spouse long before you know who it is!  Also, a harmonious marriage will be much easier if you two are highly compatible.  But God through the Bible only demands one type of compatibility—being fully compatible spiritually.  If God has called you (John 6:44, 65), you should only marry someone who has been called by God.

Don Hooser is a minister for the United Church of God. He lives in McKinney, Texas, a suburb of Dallas.  He and his wife Elsie had three children, and she died in August 2020.  Don married Judy in January 2022.  Mr. Hooser graduated in 1963 from Southern Methodist University with a degree in mechanical engineering, and graduated in 1966 from Ambassador College, Big Sandy, Texas.  For most of the time since then, he served as the pastor of churches in Ohio, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington. From 2011 until his retirement in 2021, his primary responsibility was answering the many letters written to the Church.