In our frailty as human beings it’s often easier to see the “speck” in our spouse’s eye, rather than the “log” that’s in our own. We should never neglect to give the grace (unmerited favor) to our spouse that we expect our spouse to give to us at different times.

It tells us in James 1:19, to “be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry.” Can each of us honestly claim that we conduct ourselves in our married lives as we’re told in this verse to do?

In our everyday walk in our marriage, we need to be careful not to “bristle” over situations that really won’t matter that much in the big scheme of things over the course of our married lives. We should ask ourselves if we’re as slow to anger with our spouse as God is with us.

God is our perfect example of this as He’s described in Psalm 103:8 where it says, “the Lord is compassionate, and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in loving kindness.”

Ask the Lord to help you not to “major on that which is minor” in the bigger scheme of things. And ask Him to help you to strive to be a peace-maker in your home — not picking up offenses so easily.

Our prayer for you this week (and also for us) is that together we will strive to be dispensers of grace, rather than vessels of criticism.

Our prayers are with you as together we work to make our marriages a living testimony of the grace of God. We pray you’ll have a blessed week!

Steve and Cindy Wright

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