Developing Spirituality Unity in Your Marriage is Vital!
Including God as a central part of your marriage is one of the most important things you can do to strengthen your marriage. He makes things work when you can’t. He can help you communicate things when you can’t. He can make more of your marriage than anyone can! Including him in your marriage will make it that much more joyous and fulfilling! This sounds amazing, right?! Well, how often do we put spirituality at the top of our list of priorities for having a strong and healthy marriage? How often do we include God in our trials and challenges that we face in our marriage? How often do we make plans to grow in spiritual unity with our spouse? If your answers to these questions have you fretting, don’t worry. It’s not to late to start prioritizing spirituality in your marriage.
When first starting out on this journey, be patient and persistent. If creating spiritual habits with each other is something foreign to you, it is going to take some work. Creating habits takes time. They key is consistency though. Even when you forget to read scriptures with each other or say prayers together at bedtime, pick up right where you left of the next day. Keep going. Eventually it’ll pay off and you’ll see the fruits of your labor. And start small. Don’t try to implement every spiritual thing you’ve been missing all at once. It will be overwhelming for you to try and maintain that lifestyle if it’s not one that you have been living. Pick one thing that you and your spouse can do today, and master that. Then add another thing and master that. Before you know it you’ll not only be spiritually unified but you’ll also have changed your very hearts!
One thing that I want to mention is that anytime you are trying to do something good, especially like strengthening your marriage and your relationship with God, inevitably something bad always seems to happen. But this isn’t a coincidence! It’s the adversary at work because he doesn’t want you to succeed. He doesn’t want you to develop that spiritual unity with your spouse or with God. He knows that if you master this in your marriage, it will be nearly impossible to break your foundation and tear you apart! Divorce rates have risen so much over this past decade, heck, even over just the past few years. There are several contributing factors to that, but one major factor is that God seems to be left on the backburner. Don’t leave Him there. Invite him into your hearts and into your marriage. He can work miracles for your relationship, you just have to ask for His help then put in the work.
Ideas to develop spiritual unity in your marriage:
Pray together. Pray for each other.
Go to church together.
Read scriptures together.
Fast for a common purpose together.
Listen to uplifting church music more.
Watch some uplifting church movies or shows together.
Share spiritual insights and thoughts together.
Schedule some spiritual growth time with each other.
Find role models or examples of other couples who spirituality you admire.