What if I'm in a miserable marriage? The sad truth is many people I know are in miserable marriages. As one lady put it, "I pray everyday for God to get me out of this hell." We come into marriage with high hopes and expectations, but all to often they become more like a pipe dream leaving us empty, frustrated, and demanding more or just giving up.
Where do you start to transform a miserable marriage? You start by acting like God - not by acting like you are God - that's part of the problem in the first place. You don't have the position to make demands as God does, but you can act like God by learning to love like God. How does God love you? He made a choice to love you. Before you were born, before he created anything, before you had a chance to do anything good or bad God loved you - he chose to love you.
"Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes", Ephesians 1:4 NLT (emphasis added.
Make the choice today, "I will love my spouse." That does not mean you can choose to feel loving, it does mean you can choose to act loving. Before you click out of this blog let me ask you to do one thing: Decide on one tangible way you will show your love to your spouse today. What is it?
Check back in a couple of days and we'll take another step toward transforming a miserable marriage.
