TRUE LOVERS ARE SUFFERERS and the first and greatest of them all is God, Who is LOVE.
When God saw the grim future that lay before fallen humanity: a future of eternal damnation and torments in the Lake of Fire, He willingly gave His Son Jesus Christ to die for it’s redemption, knowing fully well the great sufferings that Christ would go through to procure Man’s salvation.
And Christ Himself, like the Father, is a Sufferer. He foresaw the hatred, opposition, rejection, persecution and crucifixion that awaited Him on Earth and still came; because He knew that without His suffering and dying for humanity, it would be lost forever!
Love and Lovers must suffer or else they’re useless in the mission to which they’re divinely called.
You’re not in your Spouse’s life to only enjoy them and be blessed through them. No! You’re in their life to be God’s instrument of Love through whom their life will be gradually transformed until they become whom God destined them to be.
There’s a better Spouse in the Man or Woman that you’re living with today as your husband or Wife; and there’s a better and higher level of marital life awaiting both of you. However, it will take sowing the seeds of Suffering, Forebearance and Endurance for them to become manifest.
When Jesus beheld the great sufferings that lay ahead of Him in the Crucifixion, He chose to look beyond them. He instead fixed His gaze on the JOY of bringing millions of Souls out of Sin
and making them eternal sons of God. That JOY alone made Him despise
the shame of dying naked on the Cross
“Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”(Hebrews 12:2)
If you desire to be successful in your relationship with your spouse, be willing to suffer for their sakes. Be willing to bear their immaturity, stubbornness, selfishness, arrogance, idiosyncrasies, excesses, laziness, dirtiness, and all other faults that characterize their lives today. Have a strong and abiding hope
that they’ll straighten out with time. And of course, your patience and endurance must go hand-in-hand with praying and interceding for them; and rebuking them with love when they’re wrong, because:
“Open rebuke is better than secret love.”(Proverbs 27:5)
When we talk of suffering in the course of loving your spouse, we’re not talking necessarily about getting killed for them. This suffering come mostly in form of inconveniences; the extra time or other resources that doing something good for them will cost you; the painful sacrifices you’re forced to make without which their wellbeing would be jeopardized, etc
Love BEARS, not some things, but all things. So also does it ENDURE all things. What are these “ALL THINGS”? They are those UNENJOYABLE things your mate does. You’re not to desert the marriage because of them. You’re not to even think of divorce just because of them. You’re to BEAR AND ENDURE THEM.
One of the reasons we have so much divorce among Christians and Preachers today is the unwillingness of many to accept the great components of Love we’re dealing with presently( yesterday’s and today’s devotionals). The trio of SUFFERING, FOREBEARANCE AND ENDURANCE are not acceptable to them, yet they are MUSTS.
They are fundamental and core parts of Love and God demands that you observe them in your marriage.
With these trio, you can go through the most vehement marital storms and come out triumphant!
💕❤️ TODAY’S ONE FLESH ASSIGNMENT IN THE BEDROOM
Tonight, give each other a good and unhurried torso massage. Do it gently and the way your spouse wants it.
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