“Don’t expect your companion (or anyone else) to be what only God can be to you.”

 

 ²¹Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.  ²²Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.

Isaiah 45:21-22

 

Victory Action

There is a certain quality of relationship that I can experience only with God, so I will expect Him, and not others, to meet the kind of need that only He can fulfill.

“God wants us to enjoy, not endure our marriages and lives.”

⁷Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.  ⁸Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:  ⁹Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.  ¹⁰For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:  ¹¹Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.

1 Peter 3:7-11

Victory Action

Effective relationships are foundational to an enjoyable life.  As I respect and walk in love toward others, I love life as I see good days.