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We go into marriage and relationships expecting to find happiness and life from our spouse. When they don’t deliver, we believe that we married the wrong person. Be appalled at this, you heavens, and shudder with great horror,” declares the LORD. (Jeremiah 2:12 NIV) “My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water. (Jeremiah 2:13 NIV) In everything you do, put God first,
and he will direct you and crown your efforts with success. (Proverbs 3:6 TLB) Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?” (Matthew 9:3 NIV “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,” (Matthew 9:4 NIV and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? (Matthew 9:5 NIV) After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— for we are members of his body.(Ephesians 5:29-30 NIV) “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” (Ephesians 5:31 NIV) This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. (Ephesians 5:32 NIV) However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. (Ephesians 5:33 NIV) The law of unity love your wife as yourself respect your husband practical steps for unity 1) Husbands and wives should allow their individual qualities and skills to complement one another. 2) Husbands and wives must be loyal to one another Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: (Ecclesiastes 4:9 NIV) Reflective force An awareness of the communication acts, contexts and patterns that shape particular episode. 10 Ways to Grow in Unity Within Your Marriage Talk about the Gospel together, daily. Go to bed at the same time. Listen to good sermons online, together, and talk about them. Spend time together that involves talking, rather than watching TV. Study the Bible and challenging doctrines of the faith together. Speak of each other as “we.” Help one another make time for alone time with God. Go on a date and talk about each other rather than the kids. Pray out loud with – and for – each other at bedtime. Always take inventory of the distance you’ve come, rather than recount the ways you differ.