19 Jan 2010, Posted by spittingimage in General, No Comments.

Grease the wheels, prime the pump and dare to dream for a better life

It takes a little warming up

Following up to Lance’s post, I was struck with the idea of
just how many marriages out there just seem to be doing okay. I mean “okay”? Seriously, is that all that you want from
life is okay? Are you okay with being
mediocre in marriage? Are you okay with
being just a mediocre Christian? Are you
okay with just okay? Surely God wants
more from you. Don’t you want more out
of life then just okay?

Have you ever heard of the expression of “greasing the
wheels?” How about the expression “priming
the pump?” Marriage is a lot like that
in the sense that you, as spiritual leader have to do more in the marriage then
just mediocrity. If you are good at
sports, then at some point you had to practice to be better. If you are good at something it is usually
not just because you were granted that gift from God that made you great. Even the best of us continually practice and
practice until they can practice no more and they still believe that they can
make it better.

What if we say that about our wives? What if we decided here and now that our
wives will get 2^nd Best behind us serving and committing our life to
Christ. What if right here and now we
said, “Dear Lord, please be Lord over my entire life and I will trust and obey
your every precept and desire for my life?”, do you think that God will bless a
man that said that prayer and repented of his sinful ways. What if we committed in our lives right now
that from here on out, that God would be number one, our wives would be number two,
our kids (if you have them) will be number three and then our jobs and
community would be behind that along with our hobbies and other desires. Imagine with me, just for a moment, what that
would look like.

So where do you begin?
Any step of leadership you take toward submitting (trusting and obeying)
God would be questionable, at best, to your wives. And especially any act of kindness or
sincerity toward your wife may be suspect if you have always been disingenuous
before in the past. She would probably
just think that you are trying to make “nice nice” so you can lure her into
your bed. Don’t go that route. Instead, just decide here and now that you
are going to be a new man in Christ. Ask
him each morning to direct your path and to guide your footsteps and to lead
you in the way that will bless your marriage, your family and especially your relationship
with him.

If you take this step, then we promise that with daily
reading of the Word and daily prayers (daily = throughout the day) then you
will reap the reward of a great (not an okay) but a great marriage.

Dare to dream, dream to dare and make those dreams a reality
by trusting and obeying the very word of God.