18/01/2023
Keep Your Marriage Simple & Sweet:
Many spouses complicate their marriages by trying to compete or keep up with friends and neighbors.
They end up buying things they don’t need with the money they don’t have to impress people they don’t know. Keep your marriage simple and sweet; don’t pretend to be what you are not.
Don’t put unnecessary pressures on your marriage and don’t sacrifice your marital happiness just to keep up appearances. Don't buy things you don't really need just because your friends have them. Live within your means.
Budget together with your spouse; plan, prioritize and have the maturity, discipline and temperance to follow your plans regardless of what your neighbors and friends are doing.
It takes lots of lies, stress and debt to support a fake lifestyle. Happy marriages are simple, honest and straightforward - marriages that impresses God, not people.
For marriage to work, self must die.
Anything that is done selfishly will separate you. Consider your spouse's feelings, needs, desires, opinions, and preferences in your decision making.
There is a lot of selfishness in marriages what is mine is mine, and with this attitude bring down the marriage, the term marriage is indeed a desiring of each other to share of each other and what we have.
Marriage flourishes when the couple works together as a team; when both husband and wife decide that winning together is more important than keeping score. Your spouse needs more of your love and encouragement; not just your constant criticism and endless correction.
Listen to your spouse. Oftentimes your spouse doesn't need answers or advice; they just need you to sit down next to them, hold their hand, look them in the eyes, and listen.
A virtuous wife does not spend time on the phone broadcasting her private marital issues to all her friends and work associates or relatives.
She goes in the inner room, in her closet and gets on her knees and takes everything to God prayer. Then she gets up and goes out walking like a victor, not a victim.
Anybody can get married, but it takes genuine love to stay married. The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue.
It's a choice you make not just on your wedding day, but over and over again and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife daily. You did not marry an Angel. Every marriage is made up of two sinners.
Regardless of how hard your spouse tries to be good, they will disappoint, hurt or frustrate you repeatedly. Therefore don't expect your spouse be a saint. Rather enter marriage with a realistic expectation to be hurt and a readiness to forgive.
A virtuous Wife is a woman of substance, influence and grace. She is brainy, brilliant and beautiful. A virtuous wife is a woman of few but heart-warming, thought provoking and edifying words. She is not reckless, loud and empty.
When a virtuous wife is irritated, annoyed or upset, she zips her lips until feelings give way to reason. She listens attentively, looks through, thinks deeply and speaks graciously. Her words are like medicine to every hurting soul.
A virtuous wife does not hang around with empty vain talkers, backbiters or gossipers; she speaks the truth in love and is a constant rebuke the ungodliness around her. A virtuous wife is blessed above all women.
Blessed is the husband whose wife, friend and confidant is a virtuous woman. “A virtuous wife is a crown for her husband, but a disgraceful woman is like cancer in his bones.” Proverbs 12:4.