4 Loving Ways God Uses Marriage Conflict to Help You Grow When two people decide to share their lives in marriage, no matter how much they love each other, there will be some friction.Marriage between a man and a woman is a beautiful picture that reflects the relationship between Christ and the Church. It can also be one of the most powerful ways that God can show us what it’s like to be on the other side of ourselves, especially when we experience friction and disagreements with our spouse.The highs of marriage can help us to experience the joy and connection that God loves feeling towards us and helps us to get to know his heart for his people even deeper. The lows of marriage can help us get to know God’s heart towards us too—his great patience and mercy, even when we’re being impossible!It’s inevitable that when two imperfect humans are around each other as much as married couples are, sparks will fly. And not always the good kind.But disagreements, irritation, and even anger at our spouse don’t have to be relationship killers. When we are open to God’s leading in our hearts through our marriage relationship, He can (and will) use those times of conflict to help us grow and become more like Him.Proverbs 27:17 tells us that “As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.” That process might not always be a pleasant one with our spouses, but with God’s guidance, it can be beautiful.Here are a few ways God can help us grow when we get irritated or mad at our spouse.Photo credit: © Getty Images/OJO_Images
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Assessing if Marriage Is Right for Me Marriage is not a measure of worth or spiritual maturity, and whether single or married, every person can live a complete, meaningful life glorifying God through obedience, love, and faith in His plan.
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4 Biblical Parents Who Seemingly Made Colossal Mistakes Thankfully, God gives parents some comforting promises in raising children, such as Proverbs 22:6, “Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.”He also gives us instructions on keeping parents and kids on track, as Deuteronomy 11:18-19 encourages. “Fix these words of Mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.  Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.”Still, parents aren’t perfect, and even with our best intentions in our parenting decisions, we may sometimes make what seem like poor choices in raising our children. When we do, it’s easy for us to beat ourselves up and even feel like we’ve ruined their lives.Sometimes, what we think are good decisions at the moment can have us second-guessing for a lifetime, especially when choices and decisions that seem right at the time lead to unexpected results in our children’s lives and in our lives, too.Parenting Mistakes of Biblical ProportionLooking at moms and dads in the Bible, we see how some sometimes made very questionable parenting choices. Such choices radically impacted and redirected their children’s futures.Although we see how God worked it all together for good in their lives, leading to fulfilling His purposes and plans in each child’s life (Romans 8:28), the seemingly wrong choices their parents made could seem like catastrophic parenting blunders.The following are four biblical parents who seemingly made colossal mistakes raising their children.Photo Credit: Jonathan Sanchez/Unsplash
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Is a "Match Made in Heaven" Biblical? When we buy into this idea of the need to find our 'perfect match" in order to realize our desired happy life, we can become very disillusioned when we find out that staying married to one person for a lifetime takes a lot of hard work.
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6 Prayers for Fragmented Relationships I used to collect Willow Tree figurines representing each family member. They rested on my fireplace mantle until the entire shelf came down one year later, and many broke. I was able to glue some back together, but others were beyond repair. This memory reminds me of relationships in general, how they are sometimes fragmented by unexpected circumstances, even beyond repair. The broken pieces of hurt and betrayal can be challenging to heal, but thankfully, we have a good Father who comforts us in all our trials. If you’re unsure what to do with your fragmented relationships, here are six prayers to pray.Photo Credit: ©GettyImages/PixelsEffect
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