“Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry” (Ephesians 4:26)
The summer months have typically been called the “marriage months” of the year. In honor of the many wedding anniversaries that will be celebrated these next months, I include the anecdote by Carl D. Windsor:
“A grandmother, celebrating her golden wedding anniversary, once told the secret of her long and happy marriage. ‘On my wedding day, I decided to make a list of ten of my husband’s faults which, for the sake of our marriage, I would overlook,’ she said.
A guest asked the woman what some of the faults she had chosen to overlook were. The grandmother replied, ‘To tell you the truth, my dear, I never did get around to listing them. But whenever my husband did something that made me hopping mad, I would say to myself, Lucky for him that’s one of the ten!’”
This grandmother was a wise person who, in her own way, was actually following the advice of God. God’s Word tells the married couple (as well as the unmarried) not to “let the sun go down while we are angry”. In other words, each day before the sun goes down and the problem gets big, bad, and ugly, confront and address the struggles in our marriage relationship.
That was what the grandmother did. She had a way (probably not the best way, but her way) to deal with marriage problems before they had a chance to grow and destroy.
All this gets me thinking, I wonder if my wife has made a list of ten … or twenty?
Pastor Mark
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