THE EXCELLENT MARRIAGE
Theme: Let it start with you
Text: Luke 6:42 (NKJV) Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the plank that is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First, remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck that is in your brother’s eye.
Message:
About 28 years ago, when we newly got married, my wife and I had a conflict and I was convinced beyond reasonable doubt that she was wrong, hence I concluded that she must learn to live by the Bible. During the conflict, I quickly dashed to the next Christian bookshop, and I bought two cassettes on marriage that I felt will nail her down to her fault. On getting home, like a lion of the tribe of our family, I summoned her to come and sit down while we both listened to the message. In her usual submission, she agreed.
Within about 30 minutes of listening to the message, I couldn’t talk again, I had shot myself with the message. All I did thereafter was seek forgiveness, and that ended the conflict. It wasn’t only her that won, we both won, my arrogance was deflated, I learned about my fault, and we had peace in our home.
My beloved, like in the scripture above, if only you will sit down under the leadership of the Holy Spirit to scrutinize you, evaluate yourself, your actions and reactions, identify where you are wrong in the marriage, identify where you are causing troubles and then decide to change; your marriage will take a turn in a positive direction. *Are you willing to FIRST remove the plank you’re your OWN eye? Please, give it a try now…*
Instead of looking for the fault of your spouse and wanting to force him/her to change, let the change begin with you.
Prayer:
Dear heavenly father, please help me to identify where I am causing trouble in my marriage, help me to humbly make positive adjustments in the mighty name of Jesus Christ.
