We all married the wrong person
Michelangelo on the David statue, “I looked into the marble and removed all the bits that weren’t David.”
Philippians 2:1, 2 CSB – If then there is any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any affection and mercy, make my joy complete by thinking the same way, having the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose.
Make Christ the Center of Your Relationship
1 John 4:8 CSB – The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
You Are The Reason For Conflict In Your Marriage
“Marriage does not so much bring you into confrontation with your spouse as confronts you with yourself”- Tim Keller
“I’ve never seen any life transformation that didn’t begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own nonsense”- Elizabeth Gilbert
Philippians 2:3, 4 CSB – Do nothing out of selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility consider others as more important than yourselves. Everyone should look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.
Put Your Partner’s Needs First
Forgiveness
Matthew 18:21-22 CSB – Then Peter approached Him and asked, ‘Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? As many as seven times?’ ‘I tell you, not as many as seven,’ Jesus replied, ‘but seventy times seven.’
Forgive and Forget
2 Corinthians 5:17, 18 CSB – Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come! Everything is from God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation.
