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Forget your great
expectations. Be thankful for
whatever your husband brings
to the marriage and tell him
so. Without Christ, it is the
best he can offer.
And so sitting in solitude and stillness, on the floor of my prayer closet,
I asked. For forgiveness. For restitution between Daniel and myself. I
asked that I might become a worthy woman who would bring the light
and love of Christ into our marriage. And I asked that God would fill
me with a deep sacrificial love that could be lived out in simple ways.
In actions that would edify the man who had been gifted to me by God.
God is at work in each of us, even the husband who is not walking
with Him. Christ’s love breaks down barriers that appear to wives
to be insurmountable. Yet the love of Christ keeps on reaching out,
drawing
even the hardest of hearts home to Him. I wish
in hindsight that I had not spent the first
decade of our marriage expecting more
from the man who could humanely
give no more. I wish I had given
my energy to abiding in the True
Vine rather than wasting energy
trying to change my man into
what I expected him to be.
Yet, thankfully, even in our
mistakes, the love of Christ
still reaches out and draws
us to Him.
Forget your great
expectations. Be
thankful
for
whatever your
husband brings
to the marriage
and tell him so.
Without Christ,
it is the best he
can offer. But
you, Daughter of
Zion, can with the
Holy Spirit bring
even more. Let
your partner see the
power,
presence,
and love of Christ
in you. God will
do the rest.
DOZ Magazine September 2017
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