NO BIBLE NO BREAKFAST DAILY BIBLE REFLECTIONS AND MORE

Taking your partner or spouse for granted can be a source of anger in marriage. Relationships begin with a romantic and joyful atmosphere. It is characterised by endless intermittent daily calls and messages. At the least opportunity lovers meet and dine together in the choicest places in town. All these are signs of love and prospects in the relationship.

The challenge however is that many folks lack consistency in maintaining the vital practices that kept the fire burning at the beginning of the relationship when they first met their partners. Inconsistency leads to dryness and lack of passion in the relationship. Your spouse or partner used to feel special because of your positive acts of affection. He or she used to cherish your charming smiles, hugs, and hearty conversations, concerns, and care for the nitty-gritty of his or her life. If these positive acts of love decrease or become inconsistent, your partner or spouse feels taken for granted.

The excuse many spouses or partners who become inconsistent in their relationship give is that they have become busy with work and stressed with external family issues and societal engagements. Some inconsistent spouses or partners also use their unemployment,  hardship, poor or inadequate source of livelihood as an excuse for taking their spouses for granted. Whether in good or challenging times the value of our consistency in our relationship should remain same.

My dear friend no matter how busy you become in life or no matter how precarious your situation is your spouse or partner must never be taken for granted because he or she is a part of you. Galatians 6:9 encourages us that “… let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

I want you to reflect on your relationship today and ask yourself whether or not you have been consistent in bringing joy, satisfaction, and fulfillment to your dear husband or wife. If you have, then don’t change your style, be like that, but if you have not then you must certainly change your style and return to the good old days and start doing those little but significant things that brought smiles and joy into the relationship. You know your beloved wife or husband more than anyone, be a good steward and a faithful believer, and do the needful to reignite the quenching fire in your beautiful and God-given relationship or marriage. 

There are three important things that we must always be consistent with in ordered for our partners or spouses not to feel taken for granted. The first one is, consistently reassuring your spouse of your love for him or her through effective communication and intimacy. The second is consistently sharing your resources with him or her and last but not least is consistently sharing and making quality time for him or her. Shalom.

Jean-Paul Agidi (Rev)

Kindly Listen to King Promise’s song on inconsistency in relationship. The title of the song is “Sisa”