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News flash! Your spouse is not perfect! I know we know. That is Not a surprise. Well, at least we should know. RIGHT?
I really think the problem lies here. Of course, we know our spouse is not perfect. It's just that sometimes we forget. Yeah, sometimes we still expect perfection. But, we do understand that no NO One is perfect. That's including your spouse of course. We understand that. It's complicated I know.
It is just most times, we really do expect our spouse to do the right thing all the time. We still expect our spouse to say the right things all the time. We still expect that our spouse never will mess up.
Oh, and if our spouse will end up doing something that is totally contradictory to what they may say? That's it! Am I right fellow spouse? Yes, that is definitely it. IT being this. Yet another time to show your spouse forgiveness.
Folks, Let me ask you a question. Why exactly did you marry your spouse? I'm assuming one big reason is because you are a wife that loves her husband or a husband who loves his wife.
Do you all remember back in the early days of your relationship? Before marriage or in the early stages of your marriage? Husbands, did your wives ever do something they said they would never do that in the end really hurt you. Same question for you wives about your husband.
OK then! Well, then what changed? It's not like your husband never messed up b4 and was Mr. Perfect in the beginning of your relationship. Am I right wives?
The same thing goes for you husbands about your wife.
I'm thinking of the word "nothing." Because nothing should have changed. My thought is that you now have the label of husband and wife. Yeah, that is definitely a change.
However, that certainly does not give you husbands or us wives the green light to demand perfection from your spouse!
Nor, is it the time to withhold love from your spouse until their spouse becomes perfect.
That is just silly. Because you'll be waiting for nothing. Because no one is perfect! Right?
It can cause damage to a relationship.
Let me end my writing for the day with this. " we need to make sure that we show our spouse in love before they become perfect it is part of our responsibility to show them love and to encourage him to seek god's will and overcome these flaws but this is a life long process and we need to make sure that we love them unconditionally "
Definitely wise words from Steve Keller author of Christian couple's devotional. A marriage devotional Me and my husband are doing.
Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you.
And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.
No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
But whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him:
That you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.
TBC...
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