This idea has helped me in my role as a wife. Though marriage is an incredible blessing, I can’t base my happiness and thankfulness on the condition of it.
Ultimately, I have two responses to trials in my marriage: Genesis 42:36 or Romans 8:28. In Genesis 42:36, Jacob is going through a time of struggle, and he says, “All this has come against me!” This type of reaction bases the whole situation around me, my wants, and my expectations.
However, Romans 8:28 says that everything works together for good for those who love God. This picture puts God in the center of my motives, so somehow I know that in the midst of trials within our marriage, He is at work.
I can choose to only praise God when marriage is bliss, or I can choose to praise him through it all.
