The Lord put on my heart to write a blog about marriage, specifically directed to the wife’s role in marriage. This blog is designed to highlight how to love our husbands God’s way. We can easily get discouraged, we are not perfect and we are human. This blog serves to teach and remind us what the Word of God says about what is inside our hearts as believers. We have the Greater One on the inside of us and He is greater than the one ruling the world, Satan. As believers, we have a Helper and He is the Holy Spirit. John 14:26 (Amplified) states this about the Holy Spirit:

But the Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, Standby), the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in My name [in My place, to represent Me and act on My behalf], He will teach you all things. And He will cause you to recall (will remind you of, bring to your remembrance) everything I have told you. John 14:26 AMP

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Love: A Suffered Wrong


Love pays no attention to a suffered wrong.  Yes ladies, this is really in the Bible.  This is really the love nature of God. God doesn't keep score.  When you ask Him for forgiveness and you truly mean it, the Word says He forgets it and it’s as if it never happened.  He blots it out. 
This may seem practically impossible if you have ever been truly hurt by someone.  But "all things are possible with God." (Matthew 19:26) 
Keeping score is fun when you are playing a game and it can even be exciting when your son's soccer team is about to win, but it has absolutely no place in a marriage.  Taking account of a suffered wrong by your husband and then conveniently bringing it up and lording it over his head every time you want to win an argument is not walking in God's love and it will ultimately drive a permanent wedge between you and your husband.  "But remember when you did such and such to me?" 
Proverbs 19:11 says "Good sense makes a man restrain his anger, and it is his glory to overlook a transgression or an offense."  The Message Bible says in Galations 6:1-3:
 Live creatively, friends. If someone falls into sin, forgivingly restore him, saving your critical comments for yourself. You might be needing forgiveness before the day's out. Stoop down and reach out to those who are oppressed. Share their burdens, and so complete Christ's law. If you think you are too good for that, you are badly deceived.
Verses 4 and 5 of that same chapter go on to give further instruction for you.
Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don't be impressed with yourself. Don't compare yourself with others. Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life.
When we realize we are also not perfect and that we would want someone else to lovingly overlook our faults, it makes it easier for us to do the same for others.  How much more we should treat our husbands right?  He is the one who offered to share his life with you for the rest of your life.  This is not someone we see once on the street and go on with our lives.  We are to bear one another's burdens, lift them up and encourage them in their growth in Christ.
© 2011 Michelle Serna
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