“If you want to know how to have a happy marriage that brings you and your spouse (and your family by extension) fulfillment and joy and growth, the answer is never in what you want, but on what God’s will is. If you want marital happiness, it’s not found in someone else. It’s found in each of you becoming who God created you to be.
“Oh how happy is the person who delights in the Lord’s instruction and walks the road of righteousness.” “Happy is the person who fears the Lord and takes delight in His commands.”
The softer my heart is, the happier my marriage is – even if my spouse doesn’t cooperate. That’s the teaching of 1 Corinthians 7. Undoubtedly some of you have had to endure or are currently enduring a lot of very difficult days in a broken marriage relationship. Even the best Christian marriages have times of extreme stress and hurt. That’s because we are imperfect people who don’t always follow the Lord. And there are times when you need to get together in a room with someone and talk through issues and maybe offer rebuke or correction to one spouse or another.
But Jesus says, “Come to Me, I’ll give you rest. My yoke is easy.” And He says here, “For those of you who are called to marriage, part of that yoke is to be yoked with this person God made for you.” That is a wonderful thing.“
