Be your spouse's friend

I have always treasured friendship. True friendship; where you do not take advantage of each other; but share a mutual and beneficial relationship. Life can be lonely at times but with a friend the burden becomes lighter. You know you are not alone and you have someone with which you can share your innermost feelings and also get to listen to them. With my friend at school we would do laundry together, pray together, laugh together, share stories together, and find ways of expressing our appreciation of friendship. We would do a lot together. Of course we did have our individual lives which we would give time for.

The greatest thing about having a friend is when you personally bring sunshine to somebody’s life. Making somebody happy, feel life’s worth and generally make that person appreciate that they have a friend. This brings greater joy. God says  in Proverbs 18:24 “A man that hath friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.” We ought to be friendly in order to have friends. God became our friend first so that we could be His friends. Love awakens love. Let us take the first steps and be friends to our spouses.

Consciously talk to your spouse as a friend, invite him to join you in your endeavors, be involved in his endeavors, pray with him, keep in touch with him when you are separated during the working hours, appreciate his presence, be on the lookout on ways to express your friendship. There is nothing as sweet as having a friend but better still there is greater joy in giving the friendship than receiving it.

Sometimes we get so mixed up with our priorities forgetting that it is unselfish love that the Lord calls us to give. Anything less will not suffice but if we look up to Him, He will enable us to give unselfish and unconditional love even when we don’t receive it.

Be blessed as you share your friendship with your husband.