The Three Things that Make a Happy Lifelong Marriage that Pleases the Lord
Happiness is something everyone wants in marriage. Ask anyone, and they’ll tell you! We all know what we want for the most part, but that doesn’t mean very many of us know how to get it and keep it. The truth is that having a happy marriage, just like being happy in general, doesn’t come from trying to have a happy marriage. If your priority is your marriage, it will become an idol, and all idols will eventually disappoint. Only God can be your highest priority if you want life to yield the fulfillment and contentment and, yes, happiness you seek, and the only way to make God your highest priority is to trust Him. If you don’t trust God (that He loves you and will help you, not hurt you—that His will, as revealed in Scripture, is 100% true, good, right, and reliable, and that it will bless you, not curse you), then you won’t prioritize His will and obey it. Instead, you’ll prioritize and obey whatever you do trust in. The problem with that is that nothing you trust in other than God ca...