The first 5 years of my marriage were really hard. There was yelling. There was the silent treatment. There was this sinking feeling that things would never, could never get better. That’s when I first started hearing the 3 lies: - I married the wrong person. - He should make me feel loved. - There is someone else better out there. I believed those lies. They started to weave a tangled web of confusion in my heart. And I wasn’t shy about sharing my frustrations about the whole situation with my friends. Many nodded their head in agreement with me, making me feel ever so justified. But one didn’t. She said, “I know what you think. But what does the Bible say?” Reluctantly and with great skepticism, I turned to a couple of verses she suggested including 1 Corinthians 13. As I read the list of everything love is supposed to be, I got discouraged. My love didn’t feel kind, patient, or persevering. The love in my marriage felt broken. I closed the Bible. It didn’t seem to do anything but make me feel worse. Then a few days later I heard an interview on a Christian radio station where a couple was talking about these same verses. I wanted to gag and turn the station. What do they know about how hard love can be? That’s when they said a statement that grabbed me, “Love isn’t a feeling, it’s a decision.” Wow. I went home and flipped to 1 Corinthians 13 again. This time instead of reading it like a list of what love should make me feel, I read it as if I could decide to make my love fit these qualities. My love will be kind. My love will be patient. My love will persevere. Not because I FEEL it — but because I CHOOSE it!” - Lysa TerKeurst
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 02:00:01 +0000
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