Fwd: Who or What is Most Important?

[Felix wanjala]

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From: "Steve & Cindy Wright" <em...@marriagemissions.com>
Date: Aug 15, 2015 7:56 PM
Subject: Who or What is Most Important?
To: <wanj...@gmail.com>
Cc:

MARRIAGE INSIGHT: Who or What is Most Important?

We SAY our spouse and our marriage is most important to us, but do our actions show that to be true? Below are important questions to ask yourself. Mark Driscoll wrote these to husbands, but they’re also good for wives to ask themselves (we changed the pronoun “wife” to “spouse”): 

“Are you constantly checking your phone? Do you spend hours surfing the Internet? Are you always checking game scores? Do you bring your phone to the dinner table? Do you have a TV at the foot of your bed? Do you take your laptop, phone, & other technology with you on vacations and date nights? DO you spend your date nights not speaking to your spouse but watching a movie? Turn it off; unplug it; move it; leave it. Be present with your spouse. Speak with & connect with your spouse, and cultivate your life with your spouse rather than ignoring her [or him].” 

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We believe that’s great advice! I/we can’t even begin to tell you all the marital problems (including separations & divorces) we’re hearing about, because the social media is being allowed to push one spouse away from the other. There’s more “cleaving” going on sometimes with other people via their phones, tablets, computers, TV’s, etc… than with many, many husbands and wives. 

Steve and I LOVE the positive connections the social media can bring (one of them being access to the ministry of Marriage Missions) –lots of great things can happen. But just as with anything good, we can take them to extreme by making unhealthy choices. When something, or someone pushes spouses away from each other, rather than bringing them closer together, that is NOT good. It’s then, that important changes need to be made by one or both spouses. After all, why did we marry our spouse in the first place, if we choose to continually push other people & things ahead of spending time connecting with our spouse?

How about you? Are you “connected to each other” or to your devices. Ask yourselves –What’s more important? Please pray about this issue. Make sure your actions line up with what you vowed to do on your wedding day –a vow you made to your spouse and to God. Sometimes, we need to do some re-aligning of priorities. Ask God if this is one of your tune-up times. If so, DO SOMETHING about it. You may or may not be able to encourage your spouse to do what she or she should, but that shouldn’t stop you from doing what YOU should do, as God would have you.

We’ve got more that you can read, written on this issue, in this “Marriage Insight” posted on our web site at www.marriagemissions.com. In addiction, there’s a blog titled, “Being Present” posted at http://marriagemissions.com/being-present/ and additional ones posted in the “Social Media” topic of our web site. Please take advantage of what we make available. …We hope you will.

May the Lord bless your marriage, as you lean into the Lord’s will for your life,

Cindy and Steve Wright

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