25. Capture

My 31 Free Writes for October play out like a serial love story in an old time magazine. It’s the saga of a young woman and how God leads her to the love of her life. Each day offers new developments in a romance only the Lord could write.

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I firmly believe that God ultimately wants us to be holy more than He wants us to be happy.
This is not exclusive to Sunday morning worship or Thursday evening Bible study. God’s desire is that we be sanctified, or set apart to be holy, in every aspect of life. Including marriage.

Especially in marriage.

What better place for us to learn and practice the calling of God in grace as we:
mature in our love toward each other,
improve our strength with abundant joy from God’s,
act as peacemakers with our spouse,
increase in patience while we nurse that last nerve our beloved keeps stepping on
discover innumerable ways to show kindness,
allow goodness to rule the day,
display faithfulness to our mate in public and in private,
maintain a gentleness that preserves each person’s right to be heard,
exercise a sacrificial self-control that puts the other’s needs before our own.
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We can do this when we remember that with God all things are possible and that a godly marriage is two sinners captured by grace, playing on the same team.
 
Gal 5:22-23 “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.”

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