Abiding in Marriage: The Unbelieving spouse

Scripture to soak in, pray, and ask God to transform you with.

1 Corinthians 7:12

Romans 8:5-8

Nicodemus -John 3

John 15: 11 

Maybe you are abiding in Christ, living in dependency. However your spouse is an unbeliever. 

Challenges in these relationships: The time of sitting in the Word/devotion time will often look different than in a relationship that is equally yoked. Maybe they don’t want your kids to learn from about God. Maybe the unbeliever has idolized you and lifted you up to be their fulfillment of need. The result is not wanting to share that with anything/anyone. Doesn’t mean you don’t stay rooted in Him, or teach your children, it just might look different. 

How do we abide in these relationships without jumping to our flesh, our hurt, as our needs are not being met? 

Clothe yourself with compassion and kindness and cannot let them pull us from our abiding relationship in Christ. We have to surrender our views and expectations of our time, our family dynamic, our relationship dynamic to Him. Let God light the torch in the darkness and lead you (Isaiah 50:10), or you try and light your own torch results in strife and destruction (Isaiah 50:11). 

Let God reveal His truth to him, Let God to grow the seed. 1 Corinthians 3:6-9