Wrong or Right
He has made everything beautiful in its time.Ecclesiastes 3:11
When you made a covenant to your spouse, it wasn't just a promise to stay married. It wasn't a pass/fail exam. It was a sacred pledge to care for and nourish each other--to meet the other's needs and receive the other--to accept and embrace each other as God's personal provision for your needs.
But obviously, your wedding vows are made long before you really know the person you are marrying--before years of sharing the same house, the same bathroom, the same dishwasher, the same everything. By then you are aware of the maddening little things that just get under your skin.
It's at points like these when some husbands and wives conclude, "I think I married the wrong person." That thought is not abnormal, but it is dangerous.
If that thought has ever crossed your mind, I ask you to think carefully about this timeless advice from author and motivational speaker Zig Ziglar: "I have no way of knowing whether or not you married the wrong person. But I do know that if you treat the wrong person like the right person, you could well end up having married the right person after all. It is far more important to be the right kind of person than it is to marry the right person."
All of us inevitably come to places in marriage where our objectives and attitudes clash with each other, sometimes pretty strongly. We don't make it all the way through without encountering stretches of road that are filled with potholes, bridges out and some steep grades. But what would happen if we chose to accept rather than reject, to be thankful rather than spiteful, to give encouragement rather than disapproval?
I guarantee you, Mr. and Mrs. Right are the people in your wedding pictures, even if it hasn't been looking like it recently.
DiscussIn what ways has your perspective changed toward your spouse since you were married?
Reaffirm your commitment to one another in a short letter to one another.
Pray:Ask the Lord to keep your heart contented, committed to a lifetime of not just living but loving one another well.
Devotion by Dennis Rainey
1 comments:
In my 10 Commandments of Marriage I tell couples to see more in each other than is visible. Especially when the partner is not in their own personal integrity.
By the way, Commandment #1 is: Honor Yourself.
Seems strange, perhaps, to be #1, but I believe if a person knows what their values are, and follows the dreams they have for their own personal life and for their marriage, then they have a better chance of staying in integrity.
However, slippage will happen!
I have great stuff on writing down the dram and then living it at www.WeddingVowsandCeremonies.com/blog
Rev. Linda, The Wedding Vow Coach
www.WeddingVowsandCeremonies.com
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