Iron Sharpens Iron

It’s Marriage Time...

The last couple marriage devotional have taken us on this journey...
1. Make your marriage a priority
2. Establish Purpose for your marriage
3. Prioritize towards your purpose starting with the Big rocks first

If you have reached number 3 you will now be faced with the hardest challenge of all... Protecting and defending the purpose and priorities you have established.

EXCERPT:
“If you are going to have a marriage on purpose, your “us” has to decide how it is going to guard against possible intruders into your marriage. It is possible for parents, children, work, leisure activities, ministry opportunities, addictions and other people to be intruders in your relationship. Those who value their marriage will pay a high price to protect it.” Lifemates pg. 61

Married couples without purpose and established priorities will be constantly swayed to and fro. They are at the mercy of which ever way the strongest current pushes them in each moment.  These kinds of marriages make up the masses because they are easy to establish and require no real ongoing work. They simply are. It reminds me of the broad gate mentioned in Matt 7.

Matt 7: 13 "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

Those that make it through the narrow gate of marriage will be those who were intentional, who spent the time establishing a target, a goal for their relationship and worked against all odds to protect and achieve it. They will pay a higher price than the masses yet the reward will be more than worth it!

CHALLENGE:
After doing 1, 2 and 3 above, look over the categories of intruders with your wife and bring them before the Lord to know how to redefine those relationships so they will fall in line with the vision for your marriage.

Rob

PS: I bought a cheap weekly/monthly calendar so Nat and I can start sitting down each week starting Jan 1st to lay out the priorities that will get us to our vision. I encourage you to grab one and start the year fresh!