growing love in a marriage
I have been thinking about marriage.
One of the important ingredient to growing love in a marriage is to sow forgiveness.
And wear humility so we will have the willingness to make things right.
The willingness to continue learning, to acknowledge wrong, and not give up hope.
To not be stuck stubbornly to one's own guns of "this is my right",
or "You should do this for me!" or "I deserve this!".
All these strong insistence invite strife and confusion and every evil thing.
For these actions stem from the wisdom of men, not the wisdom of God.
And we end up eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, instead of the Tree of Life when we insist to practice such things.
cf. James (yes, the whole book).
In a nutshell, growing love in a marriage requires living and eating from the Tree of Life (Jesus's words of life).
One of the important ingredient to growing love in a marriage is to sow forgiveness.
And wear humility so we will have the willingness to make things right.
The willingness to continue learning, to acknowledge wrong, and not give up hope.
To not be stuck stubbornly to one's own guns of "this is my right",
or "You should do this for me!" or "I deserve this!".
All these strong insistence invite strife and confusion and every evil thing.
For these actions stem from the wisdom of men, not the wisdom of God.
And we end up eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, instead of the Tree of Life when we insist to practice such things.
cf. James (yes, the whole book).
In a nutshell, growing love in a marriage requires living and eating from the Tree of Life (Jesus's words of life).
Comments
may God bless your marriage with peace and unity as you learn and grow and submit and love!