“Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,” – Ephesians 1:15 KJV
Your Life Speaks
This scripture from the Bible has stood out to me because of something that Paul says. While writing this letter to the church at Ephesus, he says that their faith and their love are what he heard about. I’ve been thinking about this the last couple of days and I wonder if the same could be said of us.
Your life speaks...what is it saying? #youspeakvolumes #livelife Click To TweetDoes our faith speak? Does our love speak? They should speak to those around us. Our lives should be filled with faith and love. Everyone wants to make an impact, but how does real impact happen?
Paul said that their faith and their love is what impacted him. The same should be said of our faith and love. One area that our faith and love can be seen is in our marriages.
Faith in Your Marriage
Faith in your marriage can look like persevering through hard times. It’s not always that you have to be on the brink of divorce for you to have faith in your marriage. Faith can look like praying for your marriage in the morning. It can also look like having peace in your day to day. Faith in your marriage can look like believing for a consistent date night. The point is that having faith in and for your marriage is more than waiting until your about to file for divorce.
Love In Your Marriage
How does love in your marriage look? Do you picture it as your favorite rom-com movie? Or does it look like a relationship that you saw as a child?
Love in your marriage is two parts; how you give love and how you receive love. You need to know both. Does love look like handwritten letters or exotic vacations or even sitting on the couch watching your favorite show.
So what does love look like for your marriage and what do you do to maintain it? Love has to continue to grow and develop. It’s a living part of your marriage and has to be treated as such. There are some practical things you can you like praying together, date nights, vacations together and communication are a way to get started.
Building the faith and love in your marriage is what will speak to those around us. Like Paul wrote to the believers in Ephesians ,their faith and love are what spoke to Paul. Your faith and love will also speak.
Discussion Question:
What do you want your faith and love to say?
