You Decide

As you live your lives together you will come to realise that your spouse is not perfect. The way you handle this matters a lot to the joy and happiness you will have.

You can either be judgemental, whereby you are aggravated and overwhelmed by what happens or on the other hand you can choose to show mercy.

When you are judgemental, you are most likely to be unkind, selfish and hurtful and in most cases you only make matters worse.

On the other hand when you are merciful, you will be kind, lenient, generous, sympathetic, forgiving and gracious. This is the healthy atmosphere you need, to bring about the changes you have always wanted.

Build yourselves up and practice being merciful to each other, this is how God acts towards you all the time. As you learn to do this, you invite the presence and peace of God into your home.

No matter how long you have handled things the wrong way, it is never too late to change. Prayerfully ask God to help you respond to your spouse’s weaknesses in a merciful way.

Mercy will bring you great results it would make you best of friends, it will bring out the best in you and above all it will make God glorified in your relationship

Decide today to be merciful instead of being judgemental and you will reap great results.