By now, many of you have figured out that it takes hard work to have a strong marriage. If you're exhausting yourself to complete the challenges, you may be going about them all wrong. To love the way we are trying to love (unconditionally) requires the power of God. Without it, you can't do it. Period.
We discover this idea in 1 John 4 "Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us."
That being said, have you guys heard this analogy of the triangle? The idea is that you and your spouse are in the two bottom corners of the triangle. God is at the top. As you grow closer to God, you grow closer to oneanother. This is the only way to have a truly successful marriage. Strengthening your personal relationship with God, you can't go wrong!
Today's challenge is both simple and extraordinary.
Pray for your spouse today.
Pray for his or her well-being; their spiritual walk, their heart, their soul, everything about them. Pray for their protection and pray for your marital relationship. What better way is their to demonstrate love for your spouse than to lay them before God in prayer? I can't think of one, can you?
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