Level Up Your Marriage Sample

Our spiritual lives reflect the reality of the need for focus in many ways. This holds especially true with regard to marriage - a relationship that faces multiple levels of stress on a regular basis. When a couple is weighed down with the cumbersome need to control everything themselves … adjust every angle, move every light, lift every chin, pose every moment, they miss out on the ability to do much at all. They get stranded in the minutia while missing the miracle of marriage itself.

When our focus is on the temporal details of life, rather than on God, we spend the bulk of our time dictating our distractions instead of dwelling on our destinies. We willingly enslave ourselves to the tyranny of the urgent. We forget the value of a moment, a word, a look, hug, or even a shared meal. 

Marriages fall prey to frenzy rather than peace due to a lack of perspective which keeps God as the Sovereign, in control of all, and resting in the truth of His Word. God tells us that when we focus on Him, peace presides. “You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you,” Isaiah 26:3. 

If you long for more moments, more peace, more memories in your marriage, focus on God. Let Him figure out the details and blur out the backgrounds. As you do, you will discover the tremendous beauty right before your very eyes.

A Prayer for Focus

“Heavenly Father, You are seated above all and Your rule is carried out over all (Psalm 115:3). We honor Your position as supreme authority. Through Christ, the world was created and in Christ all things are held together (Colossians 1:16). You hold things in place and by Your plans, a matter is established. We give You praise and thanksgiving for the power which is Yours, knowing that it is this power which enables us to live out our days. It is Your divine wisdom and authority which has positioned us on earth to carry out the plans You have for us. And in Your wisdom, You have brought us together as a couple knowing that we can accomplish more for Your glory in this way. Help us to rest in this truth as a couple so we can experience more of Your leading, provision and power in our home. In Christ's name, amen."