🏝️🏝️🏝️🏞️🩵🫂👥💧Yesterday, we dwelt on two of the toxic attitudes that we have condensed into the acronym ISLAND. They are Isolation, Insensitivity, and Self-centredness.

👥By God’s grace, we shall be looking at one more today, and it is from the “L” in the acronym ISLAND.

🏞️L stands for: LACK OF APPRECIATION
When God commands parents to train their offspring during childhood (Proverbs 22:6), He is never laying an unnecessary burden on them. Rather, the  command is to prepare and equip the child for the future, part of which includes their life in marriage.

💧Many have come into marriage lacking very basic character or behavioural training, such as the ability to be appreciative, thankful, grateful, or to exchange greetings with neighbours, etc. This is affecting them negatively in marriage today.

🩵In marriage, no one is paid any salary or allowance for the services they render. However, the spouse who enjoys those services is duty-bound, by the unwritten laws of nature and courtesy, to express gratitude, appreciation, acknowledgement, and a sense of respect and admiration for the contributions of their mate to their personal life and to the family as a whole.

👥When you remain ungrateful and unappreciative of your partner’s labours in the home year after year, you inadvertently weaken their morale and, without words, tell them that their good deeds are a waste.

🏝️🏝️🏝️🏞️🩵🫂👥💧THE VIRTUOUS WOMAN
One of the things that kept the virtuous woman of Proverbs 31 doing good more and more was the fact that she lived in an appreciative environment. The Bible says:

📖“27 She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
📖28 Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.” (Proverbs 31:27–28).

🏝️In verse 27, it is recorded that she took excellent care of her family and was never idle or indolent. In verse 28, we read of the encouraging outpouring of positive responses from her children and husband: streams of adulation and praise!

🏞️When you receive such a response from those you are pouring out your life to serve, you are encouraged to do more!

🏝️🏝️🏝️🏞️🩵🫂👥💧THEY’RE NEVER YOUR RIGHTS BUT COVENANT PRIVILEGES
Never take your mate’s work for you, the children, your relatives, your friends, and other visitors who come to your home as “your rights,” because, in the real sense, they are not. They are privileges bestowed on you through the covenant of marriage.

🫂Therefore, your spouse deserves your recognition, adulation, praise, and celebration of them again and again and again.

🏝️🏝️🏝️🏞️🩵🫂👥💧CONCLUSION
Are you that husband or wife who never appreciates your spouse’s efforts in the marriage, home, and family? It is time to repent of that wrong, ugly, and sickening behaviour.

👥If establishments have found that it is gainful to their corporate growth to give their hardworking employees awards, then spouses also need to know that doing similar things in their union will foster relational growth, well-being, and robustness.

🩵Therefore, as spouses, make it your standard practice to decorate one another with the garlands of praise, commendation, tributes, eulogies, and applause often and on. Yes, extol and laud one another.

💧All these may sound new to your ears, but they are true, real, and practicable.

🏞️You can do them in several ways: through spoken words; in writing—essays, letters, and poetry; through musical compositions; or by getting an artist to create an award plaque for you to present to your mate as a surprise gift at the breaking of a beautiful day.

💧Please, appreciate one another. Do it sincerely. It will build up your union and make it stronger.🏞️🩵

💕♥️Tonight’s Bedroom Assignment: Re-read this devotional together just before bedtime and discuss it with open and sincere hearts.

 ✝️Altar Call: Jesus Christ is calling you! Come to Him today in genuine repentance. Believe in Him and be saved!

🧪⚗️Scientific Info To Boost Your Marriage:
🔬”Couples who share active or exploratory vacation experiences report higher levels of romantic passion, greater relationship satisfaction, and increased physical intimacy after returning home compared to couples who stay home or vacation separately.”🔬

📢HALLELUJAH!
🎷PRAISE THE LORD!

🚨Please, share the LINK of this devotional message to at least TEN of your married friends and contacts.🚨