National Spouse Day (Really???)

Yesterday was National Spouse Day. I have never heard of such a thing, really we need to be told to make a day about spending time with our spouse? We need to be reminded that they are the single most important person in our lives, I said person. God must be first, but when we love God the most and we put Him first in our lives, the rest is a choice. That person you crawl into bed with at night, that person you call your wife/husband.

I believe that we have circum to the worlds idea of marriage, that it takes the back burner to work, to kids, to everything and marriage is just that a thing, but God says it is so much more. He says it is to be honored above everything else.

I have heard people say it is to much work, yes it is a lot of work, but good things take work, it takes doing things to make it work. It isn't 50-50, it is 100-100, it isn't giving 100% at work, then coming home and giving our spouses what is left, it is actually giving our spouses 100% no matter what. Marriage is the single most important thing in our lives, not because I said so, but the Bible says so. God first, then our spouse, if we aren't doing that, we need to seek God for help, He is the only way.

Ephesians 5:25-28 "Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself."

And Wives:

Ephesians 5:22-25 "Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,"

And there are many more scriptures that reference what God wants in our marriages.

God never said that marriage would be easy.It isn't just when things are good or when it is National Spouse Day or Valentines day, but every single day of your life. Besides God, the relationship between a husband and wife is the most important. If it isn't you will see the marriage fall apart, because when you put other things before your spouses, you allow things to break what God has intended and how He wants it to be. If we have kids, what is your marriage stating about how we treat each other? God wants us to be not just reading His word, but doing it as well, acting on it.

Just the same as with our relationship with Jesus Christ, if we put anything before Him, we will see it suffer, it will not be complete. There is a reason for it all, we have to make a choice to put Him first before all else. I have walked the road where I did not put Jesus first, I have seen how hard it is to come back into putting Him first. Praying is a choice and not easy, but when we do it because that is what we should do it changes everything, but if we say we haven't prayed in a while and I don't have time, we are putting other things before God, we are putting ourselves before God, because we made a choice and said we don't feel like it. It is selfish and that is what Jesus is talking about, stop putting ourselves before Him, before our spouses and stand up and be what God is call us to be. His people, that fear Him, Honor Him first. Do what He commands and watch as we stop focusing on ourselves how things change.