When Marriage Gives You Something You Don’t Want…but Need

We will appreciate our marriages more when we surrender to God and allow Him to guide our growth. The very thing bothering you most about your marriage at this moment may be God’s tool to refine you and shape you. Sometimes, God uses marriage to give us something we really need, even if it’s not something we really want.

Imagine two people were given control of the same piece of paper, but they each had two different agendas: one person was trying to create a paper airplane while the other person was trying to make a birthday card.

Every time the other person had a couple of minutes to work on the project, they undid what the first person had done and restarted their project.

What are you going to have?

One frayed piece of paper and two very frustrated individuals.

What if God has a different agenda for our marriage than we do? Isn’t it wisest to surrender to His agenda, rather than keep pushing back with our own? What if He’s trying to fold us and shape us into something very different than we think we should be?

Rett gulped when the doctor told him that his wife Kristy needed an operation that would keep her in bed for three weeks of complete bed rest and require special care for a few weeks after that.

Rett is a brilliant lawyer and he tends to live in his head with concepts, arguments and a quick wit. He’s a great Sunday School teacher, and will never fall prey to false teaching. Rett also makes a great living and can hire people to do what he doesn’t want to do. He’s not used to playing the role of a nurse. In fact, he had never played the role of a nurse.

On the way home from the doctor’s office Rett blurted out, “I don’t know if I can do this!”

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