Wonderfully Made

Your relationship with your spouse is enhanced by a realistic understanding of yourself. You are fearfully and wonderfully made, but self-awareness and self-examination are things you sometimes tend to avoid. Someone once said, “If I got rid of my defects of character, I might find that I have no character at all!” Is that true about yourself? It isn’t easy for any of us to admit our defects. It hurts to realize we aren’t all we should be and to then have to admit that we continue to do compulsive things we really don’t want to do. But it’s even harder to see our strengths. Because of the low self-image so many people have, they can come up with a list of defects twice as long as their list of strengths. An accurate and balanced inventory is necessary if we are to be in a right relationship with ourselves, God, and our spouse. The key to gaining inner health is in trusting God. He has made us as we are; we truly are fearfully and wonderfully made. We should always rejoice in our gifts (everyone has gifts) and seek the grace of God to deal with our weaknesses. If we are truly willing to release them to him, he can bring us to wholeness. It is wise to begin each day committing our loved one into the hands of God. As a Christian, our obligation to our spouse isn’t to be the best looking, the smartest, wealthiest, or most successful. It is to be the best we can be from God’s point of view. This simply means committing each day into God’s hands which equips you in the best way to doing His will, which will also let you be the person He wants you to be all day long. By doing so you won’t have the heaviness in your heart; God simply takes it away. (My thoughts with This Love We Share, by Harry and Emily Griffith). Sherry