Loving The Personal Weakness of Your Spouse [Ep 104]

Our culture tends to be a really self centered. There is not much grace for the personal weakness of others.

And so, in step with our culture, a lot of the things that you hear talked about when it comes to the difficulties of married life have to do with one of the partners being bothered by the actions or attitudes of the other partner.

As a result we hear complaining - we hear wishes of the things that the other spouse would do differently - and I think while that’s totally understandable, it is NOT the approach we as believers in Christ should be taking.

This episode is all about THAT - what do you do when it comes to your spouse’s personal weaknesses? My contention - you should love them not only in spite of those weaknesses, you should also love them IN those weaknesses.

Listen to this episode to hear my explanation.

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What you’ll learn about loving your spouse’s personal weaknesses…

• [2:00] The different approach believers in Christ need to take when it comes to the weaknesses of others - including our spouse
• [7:20] The approach of proactive love in the areas of weakness your spouse experiences
• [8:54] Jesus is the perfect example of proactive love - like we need to express to our spouse

What I've discovered about proactively loving the personal weaknesses of my spouse (and that she’s learned about mine)...

It was 8 to 10 years into my marriage before Iearned a very important truth about the way I’m supposed to love my wife. It has to do with those things that my spouse struggles with personally.

I'm talking about struggles here, things that give her a hard time in life - like in the securities and fears and doubts she feels, you know, those kinds of things that plague all of us but that we don't always readily want to admit to other people.

You know you get to see those in your spouse better than you get to see them in anyone else. And as time goes on you get to learn what it is that pushes their buttons…

• Things that make them afraid
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