He brings me yellow roses. He helps me with the dishes. He sings me songs of love, when I need it most. He reads the Bible to me, and listens patiently. He deals with all of my crazy moods and all my sometimes attitude. He sits beside me in a hospital bed, refusing to leave my side. He picks up what I lack when I am unwell. And he gently helps to reason with me when I am being a little dramatic. He gives his all, to help me feel safe, secure, loved, valued, appreciated. He does what he can to make my dreams come true. More than that, he doesn’t just love me completely, he loves and cares for our children; though they are not biologically his own. I have flaws, but he accepts them all. My husband is not perfect, he has made mistakes, as he is human. Though he is a good, godly, man. Friend, in turn, I do try to be the wife that he deserves. Though we are not perfect, God is the cornerstone of our marriage and faith the foundation in our home. We pray together, we read the Bible together, we do devotionals together and sometimes we even have a good debate about our Christian beliefs. Our marriage is not perfect, though it is as good as it is because the way that my husband and I love each other as God has called. More than that, that God is our focal point in our marriage. Do we walk perfect with Him, no, but we want to. Friend, I share this because I see what so many marriages could be if they too walked with the Lord, as a couple. We have our imperfect moments, though because we have our perfect God, our marriage is strengthened even through those trying times. May we walk with God always. May the biggest commitment we make to our spouses, be the commitment to walk with God, with them. I sat looking at my husband and I am grateful for everything that he is, everything that he does. Then I close my eyes and praise God for blessing me with Him.

Erin Fitts-Brower

Commitment

Ephesians 5:25-27 NIV

 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.

Matthew 19:4-6 NIV

“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

1 Corinthians 16:14 NIV

Do everything in love.

Ecclesiastes 4:12 NIV

Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

Joshua 24:15 NIV

But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”