One of the greatest dangers in marriage is to harden your heart towards your spouse. It happens to everyone who is married at some time or another. Honestly, to some degree it probably happens to us everyday. When we sense that our heart is hardening to our spouse, the only way to overcome it is to choose to love and serve your spouse, especially when you do not feel like doing it. In the tradition of C.S. Lewis, when we act out our love towards our spouse, we will find that our feelings follow.
When I was in college, one of my professors shared with us a story about a couple that he and his wife knew quite well. One day, they overheard the couple joking with each other about getting a divorce. This didn’t sit well with my professor. Within a year, this couple who had joked about divorce ended their marriage. My professor’s simple advice to us was to not even joke about divorce. Don’t make it an option in your marriage. Continue to offer your hardened heart to God and let him shape you through choosing to love your spouse even when you don’t feel like it. If you do this, you will find your marriage to be quite blessed.
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