I want you to imagine that you just won the Publisher’s Clearing House Sweepstakes. Ok – before you decide how to spend it all, keep imagining with me. So the Sweepstakes people show up to your house in an armored truck and deliver your winnings to you not in a check but in $100 bills. While you don’t care what form they deliver it in, I mean money is money, but they deliver it to your front yard in dozens of boxes. Your challenge – people are standing around watching the delivery take place and your bank has promised to come and pick up the boxes for you but can’t get there for three hours. What would you do?
If you are anything like me, you would probably stand guard over your money for the next three hours because the money is of great value to you. Makes sense. But how many have failed to vigilantly guard their marriage with the same watchful eye? You see, temptation surrounds us – those related to anger, sexual unfaithfulness, relational pressures, and many others. Do you tend to build a wall of protection around your marriage or do you treat it with a carelessness that communicates that it is not all that important to you? Do you value your relationship as much as the pile of money in the front yard? If you do, strive to demonstrate it visibly this week in a manner that will encourage your partner as well as yourself!