A seven-day study for marriages under pressure—Christlike love, honest repentance, patient hope, and help that refuses contempt.
Marriage Under Strain (7 days)
A seven-day study for marriages under pressure—Christlike love, honest repentance, patient hope, and help that refuses contempt.
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Day 1: Love that stays
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud, doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Strain turns small frictions into stories about “always” and “never.” Paul describes love that behaves differently under pressure.
Love is patient and kind; it does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It “bears… believes… hopes… endures all things.” This is not romantic fluff—it is cruciform character.
Which phrase in 1 Corinthians 13 most confronts how you have spoken lately?
Practice: Choose one patient or kind act toward your spouse today—no speech attached. Lord, form this love in me when I feel thin. Amen.