Day 6 of Love Dare / What I have learned this week

Love is your job description

This is the message you have heard from the beginning:

We should love one another.

1 John 3:11

People from every nation, tribe, and tongue have it in common-everyone is longing to be loved. It's inbred, God-given, lifelong, and deeply felt. "Would someone please love me?" is the unspoken cry from billboards, television shows, magazines, and T-shirts. We work constantly to get others to notice our worth and validate us with their attention. We will even give ourselves to someone with hopes of receiving love in return. But ironically, people rarely take their focus off themselves so they can meet this need in others. Selfishly, we may even overlook our own spouse. But he or she needs it just the same.

Love, however, is your primary responsibility in marriage. Did you not vow to a lifelong love at the altar? Are you not the one God has privileged to fill your mate's love tank? And remember this: when your spouse deserves your love the least, that is when they need it the most. No one on Earth is more strategically positioned, commanded, and called on to love your mate than you are.

Prayer

"Lord, I thank you for the spouse you have given me. Teach

me to love them in a way that meets their needs and honors

you. In Jesus' name, amen."

As we come to the end of each week I am going to post my feelings and what I have learned from this week.

So this week has been a bit of a struggle with me. I have been sick for most of it but still have read the book and done what it has said. I have learned that I need to pay more attention to what my spouse is feeling and be more open to opportunity to love someone other than myself and my family. I need to remember that I am not the only person in this world going through my struggles and that what I may have learned someone else could use. I have also come to understand that no matter what I know that I am loved by someone. Even when I don't think I deserve it. I hope that you have also learned something valuable this week and continue to read the posts. I know that it is really helping me.

Blog at you later.