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 Marriage 101 - Collective Guidance
Love Without EndBy Brooke Espinoza FORGIVENESS “It keeps no record of wrongs.” 1 Corinthians 13:6 Be the example of forgiveness in your marriage. KEEPING SCORE  Just the other day, my husband and I went to play miniature golf. My husband enjoys keeping score to monitor his progress. As we went from hole to hole, I noticed that my husband was doing rather well, while I was struggling to stay below par. Not only was I under pressure to stay in the game, I even knocked a ball into the water! By the seventh hole, I told my husband, “I’m not keeping score anymore. I feel as if I am recording my failures. It’s very depressing. I just want to enjoy the fun of the game.” Often when we keep score on our spouses, it usually reflects the negative…what they didn’t do, what they did do—wrong, what they should of done, and what they should have said. Can you imagine how torturous life would be if your spouse did this to you twenty-four hours a day, everyday? Oh, it would make us absolutely miserable! May we not forget that as believers, we have the Holy Spirit of God to guide us, direct us, convict us, and restore us. Our spouse, if a believer, already has the Holy Spirit dwelling in him or her. The position has been filled. As my dad likes to say, “There are no openings in the Trinity.” God doesn’t need our help, nor does our spouse need a second Holy Spirit. May we not forget that God is in control and He is doing a work in our spouse. Let’s not interfere with the work that God wants to do, by putting our two cents into our mate’s behavior. Instead, simply love and appreciate your spouse for exactly who he is right now.
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