Marriage Challenges

Monday Matters-January 17, 2022
Everyday Wife Nagging

​Sometimes it’s hard not to get my way.  Hey, who am I kidding it’s always hard not to get my way.  I remember when the boys where little and I asked my husband to go outside and play with them because it was above zero Fahrenheit in our little winter town in Minnesota.  My husband said “no.”  I didn’t like his answer so I proceeded to tell him in different ways why the boys needed to be outside and why their dad needed to be the one to take them there.  I could hear what I was doing wasn’t effective but yet I just couldn’t stop talking.  It’s exactly what Paul talks about in Romans Chapter 7; “I do not understand what I do.  Nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature.  I have the desire to do what is good, but I can’t carry it out.”  

I need to remember that the first time I tell my husband something its information, the second time; it’s nagging.  And only through Jesus can I carry this out…everyday.