I love my wife Lainey more than words could ever describe. To me, she is the most important thing on His earth. “He who finds a wife finds a good thing” springs to mind. What we have in our relationship between us is so precious: that connection, the understanding, the mutual support and encouragement, the companionship and of course the love and passion.
Our marriage, our life together, is so important that I should be careful to never neglect this relationship. To do so would disable me so drastically, the emotional harm I would cause for myself or for Lainey would result in us limiting our potential to do the thing we are called to do.
Yet every day I do neglect the precious gift that God has given me, and I do this just because of some fleeting selfish desire to do my own thing. I understand that preferring myself over my Lainey because of selfishness (especially when presented with an opportunity to bless her) is damaging to our marriage relationship. However, it is something that is done.
We all do it, we all can recognize these times and feel ashamed of the way we willingly sabotage our relationship. Our enemy would have us crippled with remorse for the way we neglect each other. The better thing, however, is to repent and ask God to help us to love our spouse as he loves us and to continue on in His strength loving our wives fiercely.
It does me good to remember to prefer my wife more than myself!
In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
(Ephesians 5:28 NIV)
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