A little while ago Stephen Altrogge wrote a small article he titled So You Think You’ve Married the Wrong Person and
today I would like to add one thing to the discussion. Stephen’s
article addresses an always-pertinent topic. It is a topic that is
applicable to married folk who may one day wake up and wonder, Did I
marry the wrong person? In fact, I think most married people wonder that
at one time or another. It may not be a question filled with true angst
and regret, but one that may persist at the back of their mind.
At
such times you can find great comfort in this simple reality: I
guarantee that you have married the wrong person. We all marry the wrong
person. Perhaps I should say it like this: we all marry the “wrong”
person. We all marry a person who sins against us, who sometimes
exasperates us by helping us worship our idols and at other times
irritates us by smashing them to pieces. We all marry a person who has
stinky breath and physical blemishes and bad moods. We all marry a
person who is apparently incompatible with us on all kinds of levels. To
quote Stephen, “The husband is neat, the wife is messy. The wife is
talkative, the husband is quiet. The husband is always on time, the wife
lives more in the moment. The wife is social, the husband is
a homebody.”
The differences can go far deeper than that. The
differences may extend from the marriage bed to the church sanctuary,
from the way we make love to the way we worship, and everywhere
in between.
Stephen turns to Paul David Tripp who offers some valuable and biblical counsel: Keep Reading...
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