LOVE SEEKS LASTING TREASURE
NOTE: The following article comes from the book “The Love Dare – Day by Day written by Kendrick
“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Matt.6:21
Your heart follows your investment.
Whatever you pour your time, money, and energy into will draw your heart.
This was certainly true before you were married.
You wrote letters, bought gifts, and spent time together as a couple…and your heart followed.
But if you stopped investing as much in the relationship and started pouring yourself into other things, your heart followed those.
If you are not in love with your spouse today it may be because you stopped investing in your spouse yesterday.
Ask yourself what has your heart right now.
What’s become important to you?
You can tell by looking at where your time, money, thoughts and energy have been spent recently.
Are you still putting these things into your mate?
How about the things of God?
As you draw closer to God, the Holy Spirit will act as your spiritual GPS.
When you veer off course, His still, small voice will redirect you—if you’ll listen—back toward your real treasure.
Prayer
“Lord, remind us to invest in our marriage whether our emotions are there or not. Help us to love each other regardless of our feelings, but we ask you to renew our love for one another as we obey you.”
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Mrs. Nancy, this is a tough one because people who have invested in other places either convince themselves that it was God who lead them to do that or they view the temporary happiness of those things invested in. They may say, “I stopped investing in my spouse yesterday because I found that shopping makes me happier and I don’t want to answer to anyone about the money I spent.” When the devil sees that small window of doubt, he attacks and takes advantage of it. Then there are other items placed in front of them that further convinces them that their marriage is not worth investing in any further even though they have never reached out to God for direction. Is this something common that you see?
Hi Dion! Remember that Gods word calls our marriage His “Holy Institute” in Malachi 2. That means that he has a big investment in our marriages. How sad if we belittle what God is pouring His heart into. He doesn’t get blessed by a great sale but by a great marriage. As we read His word and fall in love with him, we live to please him.
Wow sister Nancy this is crazy I was just thinking last night how can I feel the way I once felt about my spouse. 😮 thank you
Hi Christina! It is a fact that when you first fall in love, there is a chemical reaction that goes on inside of you. It lasts 18-24 months and then it leaves. That is why people having an affair, eventually move on to someone else. They don’t have that feeling anymore. That is why a couple should date at least 2 years before they get engaged. That way they will know it isn’t a feeling but a true life commitment. Once you are married, you have a much better opportunity to keep the marriage alive and vibrant. The problem is that we don’t!!! That is sad. We need to dress lovely, smile, go out of our way to do nice things for them, compliment them, and show our love the way our spouse wants us to. It can be fun getting to learn what your spouse wants each day. When we are bored, they are bored. Keep up the good work. God is proud of us just for caring about our marriage. He loves it!!!
I remember saying that prayer…that God would renew the love my husband and I had lost. I know that when my marriage became difficult I couldn’t just blame my husband…I had become unlovable. I was depressed, vacant and unmotivated. Looking back now I realize that I lost sight of what God wanted in my marriage and was only going through the motions. Now, we know that we both have to make our marriage a priority! It takes both of us with God right smack in the middle.