You alone are responsible for fulfilling your God-given spouse’s emotional and physical needs. The marriage covenant requires this, not because God wants to make your life difficult, but because it is the only path to true love and fulfillment in your marriage. In a sense, it is a wonderful opportunity to sense God’s pleasure in you, and thus bring joy to your own heart.
Marriage based solely on infatuation is doomed to failure. Sacrificially loving your spouse builds true lasting love, and brings us closer to the God who is Love. Living a life of giving to one’s mate does not stifle romance and sexual pleasure, it enhances it! As you deposit your time and effort on loving your spouse, knowingly or unknowingly, you are increasing the value of your relationship. Just as we treasure those things we work harder to acquire more than those things given to us, the more effort we expend to build our marriages God’s way the more important our marriage becomes to us.
Sacrificially loving your spouse builds true lasting love, and brings us closer to the God who is Love.
There is an equally important second blessing that comes to a marriage from giving of yourself to your spouse and fulfilling their needs. When we, determining to fulfill our spouses God-given unique needs through sacrifice, their love for us grows, as does their own desire to do likewise for us. Similarly, God not only loves us, He also wants to be loved by us. His method of acquiring our love was by the ultimate Agape love, the sacrifice of sending His son to die for us on the cross.
Sacrificial Love is the biggest and most important gold nugget that you will discover in The Fulfilled Marriage: The Three Doors.
TOPIC: Our Differing Needs
