Have you ever had one of those weeks where nothing seems to come out the way you mean it?
Well, that has been happening between my husband and I all week.
Our communication skills just aren't matching up and everything we try to communicate to each other turns into an argument.
Have you ever been there?
Now, I could chalk this up to the stresses of our work, or the overtime we both are putting in at church, or selfishness, or this, or that. But I won't. I might like to at times, but I just won't even go there.
A little more than a year and a half ago I committed myself to my marriage with my husband for better or worse.
And the longer we are married, the more I am reminded of that commitment.
What is the secret to marriage?
Well, I am not qualified to answer this. But I will say that for me, I can honestly say that I love my husband a little more and more every day, even in times of those so called "worse" days, because I committed to never give up.
Never give up in our marriage. Never give up on each other. Never give up on God. Never give up on committing to make our lives together the "for better" not the "for worse" - or if nontheleast, die trying.
The Ten Commandments of Marriage
1. Do not place others before one another. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife.
2. Let nothing on earth become more important than your marriage. Seek first God’s will in your marriage and the other things will come as He desired.
3. Speak to one another with kindness and love. Like apples of gold in settings of silver is a word kindly spoken.
4. Remember to worship together. Oh come, let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the Lord our maker. For He is our God.
5. Love and accept one another’s family as your own. Your people shall be my people.
6. Do not harm one another with words, attitudes, or action. Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor and evil speaking be put away from you…and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ has forgiven you.
7. Be faithful to one another. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. And the two shall become one flesh.
8. Never take joy from one another. Above all things put on love, which holds everything together in perfect harmony.
9. Always speak the truth in love. The Lord will show you what is right and true, that you may always speak with integrity.
10. Do not desire or be envious of what others may have. I have learned that in whatsoever state I may be, to be content.
