Jesus is patient; Jesus is kind; Jesus is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. He does not insist on His own way; He is not irritable or resentful. Jesus does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. Jesus bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

We do want to be improved people, and we do find satisfaction in relationships that offer that to us, but the transformation does not come from the spouse. The transformation comes from the power of Christ through the Holy Spirit in us. The spouse is merely the vessel for God’s handiwork.

Reason 4: A Common Goal of Bettering Each Other When I was a Brownie in Girl Scouts, I heard the Golden Rule for the first time: Do unto others as you would want done to yourself.  I had no idea that this rule had a Biblical parallel, but it made sense, so I tried to…continued here