“God calls us to make love the core principle of our life. Marriage is the place for us to express love in the fullest manner. The kind of love God calls us to is more than a feeling, although that’s an important aspect of it. More importantly, it means serving our spouse with a sacrificial attitude and putting their needs before our own. It also means opening our life so they know us completely. Love should undergird everything we do. Even when we disagree, we can do so with an attitude of RESPECT AND LOVE.”
..Love & Cherish @2008 Lighthouse Christian Products……….
This is on a card I got at the Berean Christian bookstore today that on the reverse side quotes …”live a life of love…Ephesians 5:2”.
Once I asked a friend about the concern of working through a fight or even “dead moment” in a marriage. “How do you not let the sun go down upon your anger? How do you work through the major issues of marriage without letting the very place you rest – your own bed be a war zone?”
This has been one of my big concerns in marriage. My home is really my haven. It is where I come to relax, recoup, and prepare for everyday life. I do not want my home or especially my own bed to be a war zone with the person I am suppose to love and ‘live for.’ His response was that even when you don’t “feel” like it, you put the other person first. You do something for them that is outside of yourself but meets their deepest need.
This act of sacrificial love is apparently what it takes to break the brokenness of the original hardened moment. It sounds so easy on paper. Will I actually accomplish it though in life? I guess only time and trial will tell, right? I pray that you have and are finding success in that today.
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