'There's a story I just heard. A mom was making pancakes for her 2 boys. The boys argued back and forth about who would get the first one. So the mom used the moment to try and teach the boys about what Jesus would do. He would let the other one go first and put others above himself. So the older boy looked at the younger brother and said, "you be Jesus."'
This is from a marriage study I'm doing. She used that example to show that in our marriages we tend to do this a lot without even knowing it. When our spouse hurts us we internally say he needs to be Jesus. Instead we should always be the first one to actually be Jesus. Serving our spouse, loving and forgiving, offering grace like Jesus. Wow, that really hit me. How often do we defend ourselves? How often do we think we deserve for our spouse to be the one to apologize? Treat us a certain way? Step up in different areas? When in reality if we each do our part God will work out ALL the details. Even if our spouse is 98% wrong and we're only 2% wrong we still need to focus on that 2% that needs work, and God will take care of the heart of our spouse. 
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Can you trust God to "fix" your spouse? Or do you think you do a better job with nagging and pointing out all of their faults?
Such a humbling study this morning .
I'd love to hear your thoughts on this subject. Comment below!
That's really good! For any relationship. :)
ReplyDeleteIt is good advice for all relationships! Reminds me of the times Jesus said to forgive 7 x 70 times. So hard to do sometimes, but so right! If we don't strive to restore our relationships and forgive, it ends up hurting us the most! It is very heavy baggage to carry.
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