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About Family Marriage Helps Me Become More Like Jesus. Seriously?
| Marriage Helps Me Become More Like Jesus. Seriously? |
| Written by David Zook |
| Saturday, 08 August 2009 02:20 |
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“There are three rings in marriage: the engagement ring, the wedding ring, and suffer ring” – Anonymous
• He uses conflicts to chip away at our pride and selfishness because he wants us to be humble and selfless. • He uses a sudden heart attack or breast cancer diagnosis to reset our priorities … with him being number one. • He uses a house fire to remind you that your stuff is just stuff … stop obsessing and idolizing it. Idolize him instead. • He uses your spouse’s words to seep deeply into your conscience, convicting you of your sin so that you turn from it and to him. • He uses your kids as truth detectors who humble you at inconvenient times. • He uses the longevity of marriage to create patience. • He uses marriage as a laboratory for the endless cycle of confession, forgiveness and reconciliation so that we learn how to show mercy and grace to others. • He uses the countless sacrifices endured in a marriage as a means to learn how to die to self. • He uses a God-honoring marriage as a way to demonstrate his goodness and beauty to the world. • He uses the deep love in marriage to increase your capacity to love others as he loves us. • He uses the covenant of marriage as a way to build steadfast love into your life so that you can build steadfast love into others. Marriage is one more aspect of going through God’s refiner’s fire. He wants you to be like him and will never stop. He delights in taking lumps of coal and turning them into beautiful diamonds. The heat and pressure of marriage is an ideal environment to make you more like him. |
You may be scratching your head thinking, “how on earth can my marriage make me more like Christ?”
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Saturday, 12 September 2009 14:39
Karen
The book "Sacred Marriage" by Gary Thomas emphasizes this thought exactly. The theme for the book is "What if God designed marriage to make us more holy th an to make us happy?" This is one of the few books that, in my 25 years of marriage, I wish I had BEFORE I had married, along with "Love Life for Every Married Couple" by Dr. Ed Wheat. Thomas' related book "Sacred Parenting" discusses the same thing about parenting.
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