Marriage: Change of Attitude = Change
of Heart
How can we concentrate more on the blessings of our
marriage? How can we discover the goodness in the person we married? By
focusing on what brings contentment and happiness. For instance, just a simple switch in attitude can make a
person have more compassion for the person they married. We have to stop
believing in the lies we hear.
The world likes to feed gullible people things that
aren’t true. Some people are susceptible to these untruths because
they want to believe them. I
wanted to believe them and I did believe them. We want answers to our
marriage problems and we’ll practically listen to anyone who has
something to say that we want to hear. Anything that will provide the
validation we need for our own rotten actions. Over time, believing in
the lies of the world builds an unhealthy attitude in us.
I receive emails from women who actually believe that their
husband committed adultery because of something they did or didn’t do.
This is a lie generated from the world. It is incorrect.
Unhealthy attitudes keep us stuck and trapped in
our sins. Our sins are whatever we live for and whatever is controlling
us. Unhealthy attitudes steer us away from God’s love and into the
follies and sinfulness of the world. But if we are following Jesus than
we are truly free from the lies of the world. God’s children do not
search for their answers from the world. That is what those who have no
understanding do. They believe in the lies of the world and that is why
they are often referred to as blind. Wisdom comes from God because God
is wisdom.
About thirteen years ago I was blind in my
marriage. My husband and I had some daily struggles and then we had some
real treacherous issues that kept me from seeking out God for my
personal issues. I didn’t think my drinking was a personal issue
because I blamed my husband for my drinking, so it was his problem not
mine. We separated several times just because things were not going the
way “I” wanted. I told myself more lies. The biggest lie I was told
from the world and one that I believed for many years was that I was not
happy because of the man I married. Could a different man make me happy?
I don’t think so! Happiness comes from within. I made myself unhappy
by believing in the lies.
The root of my marriage problems was not alcohol,
was not selfishness, and was not my negative emotions. It was that I did
not know God. That is probably the root of your marriage problems too.
When we don’t have any real foundation to base our marital problems on
we are like chickens running around with our head cut off. We don’t
really know what we are doing. We think we do, but we don’t. As long
as we keep believing in the lies we will continue to run amok, basing
our marriage upon our own understanding and we’ll remain unhappy and
unsatisfied with the person we married.
I can honestly say with out a doubt in my mind,
that it doesn’t have to be like this. Come all of you who are heavy
laden with burdens. Strip them off your back and ask God to come into
your life and start living for the Light of the World. Jesus Christ can
change your attitude like He did mine. Change of Attitude = Change of
Heart. This is the only way we can start focusing on the goodness of the
person we married and start living for our marriage in the way that God
intended.
So how can we determine what is and isn’t truth?
A voice came from the cloud, saying, “This is my
Son, whom I have chosen; listen to him. (Luke 9:35 NIV)
This is the truth.
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