342. We’re improving
The couple’s challenge is that each person has his own rhythm and definition of love. The ideal is that each person of the couple improves in the faith. Jesus will ignite Love as it should be. It takes time for someone to realize it, but the experience will be beneficial.
Moreover, every teaching of faith is for each person in the couple, for each spouse. Marriage will be joyful and holy to the extent that each person advances in faith and improves by contact with Jesus.
Each person is responsible for improving his relationship with God, who will, in turn, give graces, a hundredfold, to the spouses. The opening of each one in the couple allows the grace of God to pass into them. This is the only way of a true journey between spouses.
If each person tries to love the other, it’s lost. But if each person connects to God and asks Jesus to go through his heart to love, then there’s joy that progresses every day, even without their knowledge. Each person in the relationship will have a good reason to give more to each other. Jesus transforms the relationship between them.
It’s the same basis for every personal relationship to Jesus:
“As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love.” John, chapter 15, verse 9
God Loves us. Let’s stay in his Love. God Loves us first, we only need to welcome and accept his Love. It sounds demanding, maybe. But there’s nothing simpler to achieve than to remain in God’s Love. Let’s love. It is demanding to stay away.
Abiding in the Love of God allows us to discover and gradually recognize the reason we live, the reason we are created. Sticking to God’s Love makes us more and more like him.
We have not acquired anything by ourselves. We’re not perfect, but we gradually become “love” thanks to God’s “Love”. When we accept to approach Jesus, we accept to let ourselves be more Loved by him. It takes us away from evil, fear, anxiety and purifies us, meeting after meeting, with him.
The new American Bible, 2011-2014
Book: The Fruit that lasts, Normand Thomas