If you didn’t read Day 1, check it out here!
http://sowmafan.com/index.php/2011/07/day-1-on-marriage/
I decided that I would try and do these a couple of days apart, but time got away from me, and it’s more like a week apart, but I assure you that I didn’t forget, and I have in fact been following along with the reading plan, even if it wasn’t the full five days straight.
For those of you who may have downloaded it, awesome. There are just so many resources these days that there really isn’t an excuse to not do something ( wagging my finger at myself as I say that).
So, here we are, let’s check this thing out.
Revelations on Day 2, Part 1
Ecclesiastes 9:9.
The two take aways I had from it were this; enjoy your wife, and take joy in her.
I was thinking in reference to these two pieces of advice/commands for marriage. Enjoy your wife, take joy in her. To be honest, I almost feel like laughing at this. Not because it’s hard to enjoy my wife, but because as anyone with children could attest to, you rarely have time to enjoy one another. Especially if your like my wife and I, having two or more children under the age of 4-5. But then I was thinking, why don’t we have time to enjoy each other? Could it be because we don’t make it a priority. And the only answer I came up with was… Yes. Clear as day, in a place not like Incheon S.K. Yes.
So, what’s that all about? Do you spend time doing things that you want to do? Do you spend time with family, friends, work buddies? There are only so many hours in the day, for sure. That means we have to take full advantage of any time we can get.
That means friends, our command to enjoy our wife and to take joy in her must come as an effect of valuing our spouse, being able to put them first. That seems so hard sometimes. It all comes down to a value system. Mine can be pretty messed up. I am betting that yours gets that way too sometimes… Errrrr, if were being honest, probably most of the time, hunh?!?
It’s a value system, just like the way that we value our time with God. It comes down to what we view as important and not important. We often put off our time with God in order to pursue something with the intentions of coming back to Him, and never do. Often when He’s calling us into the time with him, saying, I’ll be right back God, just running some errands. We end up missing something special, some part of our relationship that ties us together stronger than before. Just like we feel far away from God sometimes, we also feel like we don’t know who we married, because we haven’t spent any time enjoying them, or taking joy in them.
So, what are you gonna do? Maybe… you should step away from this computer screen and take some time to let the joy back into your marriage!
If you want to read Day 3, go here!
http://sowmafan.com/index.php/2011/07/marriage-day-3-mark-101-12/
