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Wives, How to S.H.O.W. Jesus In Your Marriage: Honor Your Current Season

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marriage_seasonsHappy Truth Tuesdays! We’re rolling through our series now.   So far we have talked about how important it is for Jesus girls to show Jesus in our marriages.  Then we went on to talk about how that begins at home.  This week, I want to talk about an issue that many women struggle with.

This is the third post in a series.  Click here to read the introduction to the series, and here to read the first topic.  

Our society is such an instant gratification society, but is that a Godly way to approach our marriages?

If we are to Show Jesus in our marriages,  we MUST honor our current season.  Did you realize that our lives go through seasons?

Too many times as  women, especially, we do not have the perspective to understand that everything doesn’t last forever.  When you are young, or especially when you are in the throes of a difficult season, like young motherhood, everything seems never-ending, am I right?    The feeding is never-ending, the changing diapers is never-ending, the watching Frozen and Dora the Explorer is never-ending, the chauffeuring and playdating and teaching and taking care of everyone else is never-ending.

But guess what?  It does end.  And then something else begins. Ecclesiastes 3:1 tells us that “for everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.”

See, I believe that too many of us spend our time envious of others that are simply in a different season.  We spend so much time trying to live in someone else’s season during someone else’s time that we miss the ability to be purposeful in our own seasons. 

To SHOW Jesus, we must honor our current season by practicing contentment.  We must realize that our current season is where God wants us to be and when he is ready for us to move, He will make it clear.

Spend your current season making a difference where you can be most useful for God.  If you have young children, serve with your family, reach out to other young wives and mothers to form strong relationships.  Be an encourager as you seek encouragement.  Most of all, know that you are useful and that this season is an important one.  You are laying the foundation for your marriage and your children.

Most importantly, SHOW Jesus by honoring your current season and making the choice to serve God where you are right now.  Remember we are only promised today, so we must make the most of it for ourselves, our marriages and the kingdom of God.

I’m so guilty of not honoring my current season.  I have wished time and again that the tantrums and the late night feedings would be over so that I could do ________ (fill in the blank).  I realized though, that this particular season is just as important in our marriage as all of the others.

Understanding my Color Type and adjusting my attitude towards my current season can make all the difference.

What about you?  Have you ever wished you were in a different season?  What can you do today to honor your current season that would make a positive change in your marriage?

Wives, How To S.H.O.W. Jesus in Your Marriage: Start At Home

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start_at_homeHow do we begin to SHOW Jesus in our marriages?

 

Happy Truth Tuesday!  This is the second post in a series.  If you missed the first post (where I talk about how I learned this lesson from my toddler), you can read it here.

Last week I told you that as “Jesus girls,” we are called to show Jesus and His love everywhere we go.  One of the places we tend to have trouble doing this is at home.  Sisters, let me tell you that HOME is the most important place to begin. In order to S.H.O.W. Jesus in our marriages, we must first: Start at home.

Now notice that I didn’t say we have to stay at home.  I said we have to START at home.  

When you show Jesus,we recognize that the first church that you are responsible to and for is the church that lives in your home everyday.  In using the word church this way, I’m talking about the people in our lives, not the buildings we meet in.  Your family, the Christians and Christians in training in your home are the church that you meet with every.single.day.  They are the people we have the greatest influence over and the greatest responsibility to in this life.

When we are really showing Jesus, we must first make sure we are ministering to the church in our own homes. 

So many of us want to make big changes in the world.  We want to go out and make a difference in the lives of our co-workers, our friends and the world at large.   We want to matter.  Those aspirations are all good, sisters.  God calls us to that, too.  However, when we are wives, our first responsibility, the first way we show Jesus is to start at home.

We start by showing the love of Christ to our husbands. We start at home by:
  • building our husbands up
  • encouraging them
  • speaking to them in a Christ-like way
  • not using the Word of God as a weapon against them, but as a tool that can be used to speak to their hearts.
  • focusing on their strengths and not their weaknesses.

Titus 2:4-5 calls us to love our husbands—we love them by showing Jesus to them. We show Jesus in our homes when our lives reflect the Word of God, and our lives reflect the love of Christ each day.

When we fill the people in our homes up with this kind of love, it will then have no other choice but to spill over into other areas of our lives.        

Our world needs more examples of Jesus’ love both inside and outside of marriage.

Don’t forget to come back next week for the “H” in how we can SHOW Jesus in our marriages.

What can you do to SHOW Jesus to your husband today?

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