Bible Exercise That Could Save Your Marriage

If your marriage or other significant relationship is hitting a rough patch, try this bible exercise for one week. This really turned things around from my marriage and for my entire family. I'm sure that you have read 1Corinthians 1:4-7 and 13 before and recognize it as the 'love chapter' that you hear at most weddings. Try this with it though.

Here it is for your reference.

1Corinthians 1:4-7 and 13 -Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful, or proud or rude. Love does not demand its own way. Love is not irritable, and keeps no record of wrongs. It is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful and endures through every circumstance. There are three things that will endure-faith hope and love and the greatest of these is love.

Every day for at least one week, Read this passage twice a day. In the morning read it as a prayer; 'Lord, help me to love like this today'. And in the evening, read it as a confession to the Lord. Evaluate your day based upon all the evidences of love and see how you did. Confess any ways in which you fell short. Apologize and ask for forgiveness to anyone that you have not loved perfectly that day. It is really hard to hit all of these things perfectly every day.

This began as a one week assignment for my husband and me from a Christian Counselor, and we found that it had a profound impact on all of our relationships. Not just our marriage and our family. We keep this verse posted on the refrigerator door now to remind us of our daily assignment.

For me, it helped to break this verse down into the things love is, and the things love isn't:

Love is patient, kind, rejoices in the truth, never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful and endures through every circumstance and lasts forever.

Love isn't jealous, boastful, proud, rude, and irritable, doesn't demand its own way, doesn't keep a record of wrongs, and doesn't rejoice in injustice.

There may be one or two things on those lists that you struggle with each day. Be extra mindful of how you do with those things. Learning to love like this makes us more Christ like, and people will respond well when you behave more like He would. Give it a try and see how people around you seem to change too.