Tomorrow our counseling group is starting a 6-week Sunday school class for married couples. It starts for the first two weeks focusing on selflessness. It has been so enlightening to work with couples myself for the past 2.5 years. The differences we respected and appreciated with our mates have grow from this respectful side to a resentment and even bitterness. Why? Well, I’d say it’s all due to our selfish flesh–sin nature. Satan always wants to destroy what God has created and blessed.

Selflessness is something one sees in young, romantic love. It’s beautiful to watch and see in real life as well as in Hallmark movies. It is even more beautiful to see how the depth of this selflessness grows into the final years of a long-lived marriage. Couples who have lived through the drama of life and let that drama draw them even closer together have the maturity of Christ’s nature when He told husbands to love their wives as He loves the church. With this kind of selfless love, it is so much easier for a wife to submit to her husband selflessly.

Tomorrow I pray seeds will be planted for reigniting this Godly love for each couple attending.