(Amy and I in the Jordan River)
She makes me want to be a better man everyday and has taught me so much about being faithful to what God has started within me. My relationship with my wife, my best friend is a constant reminder to how awesomely faithful my Heavenly Father is to us. I wanted to share a quote with you from the book, “Sacred Marriage by Gary Thomas.” This quote is not by Gary Thomas but is a quote that references at the beginning of chapter 3: Learning to Love.
If you treat a man as he is, he will stay as he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become the bigger and better man. (Johann Wolfgang con Goethe)
This is exactly what I mean by the feeling that I get everyday. My wife and my best friend, Amy is always pushing me, encouraging me, empowering me to realize that I am more than I realize. I think it’s easy for us to get stagnant in what we expect of ourselves, or another word to represent this is we get content with who we are and where we are.
What Amy’s empowering of me has taught me is that God doesn’t have a feeling of content with us. He is continually teaches us that He is making us new and the way that he helps us realize this is by the Body of Christ. God has this Holy Discontent for us. He is always desiring for us to continue grow in His grace and to trust in His spirit. So, today commit to have Holy Discontent. It’s what He wants for us, to continually grow in His grace and love and to continually extend that grace and love to the world.
Awesome God,
Help us this day to continually embrace and grow in your grace and love. HOLD US in YOUR GRACE and WASH US in YOUR SPIRIT.
Amen.