Are You a Servant to Your Spouse?

So much of my adult life has been spent trying to connect my faith and my marriage, looking for how being thoughtful and intentional in my marriage correlates to being a thoughtful and intentional disciple of Christ. These two pursuits come together in a particularly beautiful symmetry when we think of the word servant.

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What phrase most succinctly describes your attitude toward your spouse?

What characteristic should most mark us as believers?

What if those two should be the same?

Many spouses I talk to live with numerous disappointments and grievances—some, no doubt, are legitimate. But in the face of our disappointments and grievances, our faith and surrender to the Lordship of Jesus calls us to focus on serving, not on being served.  So let’s ask ourselves, is at least one of our primary attitudes toward our spouse that of a servant?