What Does it Look Like to Serve your Spouse?

Serving your Spouse

God has given us all so many wonderful spiritual gifts. It’s up to us to determine what those gifts are, and how we are to be using them. These gifts are intended to be used to serve our community, strangers, and our loved ones. We are not to use these gifts to build ourselves up so that we can boast about how awesome we are, but rather to help build each other up. Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms 1 Peter 4:10. It seems like we can always think of mission trips or service projects to do for others, but do we ever think about how we can use our spiritual gift to help out our spouses? After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him. John 13:5. Serving your spouse can be something as simple as doing a chore for him that he usually does. It can be a neck rub or maybe just some quiet time away from the kids. Don’t think of serving your spouse as what will I get back in return, but would Jesus be doing this for me?

Do not Deprive your Spouse

Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. 1 Corinthians 7:5. Oh that Satan, always looking for some way to come between you and your spouse. He is clever alright but you are filled with the Holy Spirit. So use God’s wisdom and insight to outsmart him and not let him have a foothold in your life. Satan is very aware that God made sex desirable and enjoyable for both partners. It’s one of his blessings we get to enjoy within the confines of marriage. But Satan knows if we start using it as a punishment for one another, it will cause far greater damage in our marriage.