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September  •  Day 5

Marriage Needs Attention

Day 248 of 365  •  FAMILY

Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

Proverbs 5:18 (ESV)

Proverb Truth

I’ve discovered that marriages don’t drift toward intimacy. They drift toward distance. Not because people stop loving each other. But because life gets busy.

Marriages are strengthened less by grand gestures and more by daily kindness. By listening. By serving. By choosing one another again and again.

Solomon doesn’t merely say to tolerate the wife of your youth. He says to rejoice. Because after all these years, that relationship is still a gift.

Jesus in Action

Jesus loves His bride with patience, grace, and unwavering commitment. And every Christian marriage finds its highest example in Him.

Forged Wisdom

Seneca wrote: “Associate with people who are likely to improve you.” And perhaps nowhere is that blessing more beautiful than in marriage.

The No Limits Challenge

Do something intentional for your spouse this week. Not because you have to. Because you get to.

Prayer

Father, thank You for the gift of marriage. Help me never take for granted the person You’ve placed beside me. Amen.

Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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