Marriage is not for everyone. However, you are blessed to find the person God has for you then you should be grateful. It brings joy and hard times. It takes work because it is complex. Marriage done God's way is the process of merging one man and one woman into one united front with Him in the middle.
Marriage was designed to love your spouse over yourself. That means that you have to be able to trust your partner to put you first too. Love is patient, kind, not envious, nor boasting, nor proud. It is not self-seeking, but honoring one another. It overlooks annoyances and does not keep score on who is right or wrong. Love rejoices in truth.
Every thought you have about your spouse strengthens or weakens the marriage. Critical thinking destroys the foundation of your marriage. It pushes away true intimacy. Over time it will turn into resentment and possibly hatred. No one has a more dominant influence in your life as your spouse. That means how your spouse sees you will affect how you see you.
Marriage has the power to bring satisfaction and fulfillment to both or it takes it away. Since you will live this life together should you not do everything you can to make it good? Do right by both of you with having a grateful and graceful heart..
No marriage is all good or all bad. It has peaks and valleys. Through the stress and struggle you can still find God's blessing in each other. You can still grow together helping each other out, so you do not have to face life alone. Do not create emotional bad habits. Work though things together, so you will become stronger. The closer you both move toward God, the stronger your marriage will be.
Let go of the offenses that you spouse will cause. Talk through them and pray over them, then let them go. Move forward doing better. Spend more time in the present and hopes for the future than dwelling on a past that you cannot change. Be your spouses biggest champion. Choose to build them up instead of tearing them down. Your mind does have control on what kind of marriage you will have.
Psalm 133, Proverbs 5:18-20, 18:20-22, 19:13-14, Ecclesiastes 4:9-12, Song of Solomon 2:16-17, 8:6-7, Ephesians 5:21-33, Colossians 3:18-19, & 1 Peter 3:1-7
This blog, Is so true. You get what you put in work for. Of course, marriage is not as easy as it seems but with a little bit of effort from both and God in between, marriage is defined different.
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