Love Gizmo
Theme of the Week: Your Winning Combination
Friday, May 22, 2009
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Key Bible Verse: Treat your wife with understanding as you live together (1 Peter 3:7). Bonus Reading: Romans 15:1–6
Brothers, in a back-handed way, God deals with our sinful tendencies to avoid leadership and directs us around them in the words of [today's Key Bible Verse]. I take what Peter says to mean we ought to lead with questions rather than conclusions. It means we ask about what she thinks is best, and we consider how she will be affected by the matter. Following this directive casts our whole leadership into the mold of tenderness and thoughtfulness.
Sweethearts thrive and blossom in such an environment. They do not feel as great of an urge to wrest control. They are more readily pleased to yield because they feel deeply and profoundly loved by thoughtfulness. It's a paradox worth remembering: when we are full of thoughts about their well-being, they are filled to overflowing with love. Surely this is one of the mysteries between us.
Think of love as a setting on some gizmo. If love set on "high" is passion and love set on "low" is grinding out the work of reconciliation, think of consideration and understanding as love set on the "normal" operating mode. This is love as it operates routinely, day-to-day, through the ebb and flow of life.
—John Ensor in Doing Things Right
My Response: To understand my wife better, I'll ask her …
Thought to Apply: Accepting each other makes a stable marriage. Appreciating each other, however, makes a sensational marriage. —Brett Selby (writer)
Doing Things Right (Crossway, 2007).{98} All rights reserved by the copyright holder and/or the publisher.
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