Marriage Course...

For those of you that don't know, Larry and I have been involved in an in-depth marriage course at our church, Living Light, since mid-January. And we are hoping to get finished before the babies come! (both myself is due mid-July as well as another couple in the church so that is a firm deadline to meet - ha!)

At any rate, we have been greatly challenged, provoked and stirred in our hearts towards marriage and each other since the beg of the course - which is great. With 3 young children and everything else to juggle in our lives along with a newborn due to arrive soon, we just needed some time to invest into our marriage as otherwise the time just seems to escape us.

I wanted to share something that I had read recently in a chapter of our book for studying for the course that was greatly encouraging to me -

'God measures our worth by the depth of our service. When you are scrubbing out the tub or heating up dinner for a husband who is late again...(or in my case never home for dinner!)...when your emotions are shouting, "What do I do that has any value?"...remind yourself that you are annointing the head of Jesus with service, and it is a beautiful fragrance to him.'

Yes that's completely and absolutely right. I need so often to have a shift in my perspective to recognize who it is ultimately that I am serving in my life - otherwise the emotions do crowd in and slowly but surely everything turns inward focused - a dangerous place for any of us to be.

May this be encouraging to you as well in focusing again on why we do what we do, it's a beautiful picture to consider annointing Jesus Himself every time we are routinely serving our husbands, our children, our friends - and sometimes with little or no recognition (just like Him!), but beautiful to Him nonetheless and of great worth in His sight!