The world, on the other hand, encourages individualism, which leads to isolation. Children are encouraged to draw away from their families, indulging their own appetites. The heroes of entertainment portray lives of hedonism and selfishness.
When away from the family and other natural restraints, Satan’s temptations are particularly attractive. The risks are enormous.
Discipline is an essential part of relationships, and one of the highest expressions of love. Covenant with God that you will use only His standards when disciplining.
If you have to prove your love by meeting the expectations of another, you will never succeed. Such an endeavor is like trying to fill a bottomless pit.
“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
The Bible deals with relationships. All human relationships have as their goal the glory of God. It seems to me that there are five possible relationships.
When people come into your life you do not help them by making them feel as though they are doing you a favor by being with you.
Most of life is mundane. Christ’s disciples do not live perpetually on a spiritual high, just as Jesus did not when He walked the earth. If you wish to glorify God in your life you must do it in the mundane.
For your marriage to stay on track, you must preach your own sermon to yourself. The prayer of the spouse should always be, “God make me a better partner.”
Scripture tends to speak to us at the point of our weakness. If the weakness of the wife consists in her reluctance to submit to her husband, the husband’s weakness is his failure to love his wife.
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