Daily Grind
Four months of marriage is coming up… A week from tomorrow in fact! I’ve come to realize in four months that there are things about women you’ll never know until you’re married, and none of them deal with sex. When you’re married you still don’t always understand why women do what they do. You just know that they do it. And there is something oddly beautiful about a creature that is absolutely nothing like you.
Had you asked me when we were dating if my wife and I were a lot alike, I would have given you an emphatic YES! To answer that same question today… I’d say my wife and I have some important things in common but in large part are nothing of the same person.
It’s easier for me to see why marriages fail. Not because I don’t love my wife with my full heart but because if I didn’t, or hadn’t taken our relationship serious its easy to see where it all goes wrong. There are things you see and deal with in marriage that no amount of dating can cure. It’s not like I’ve been blind sided by some mystery woman over the last four months… But its much easier to over look small things and character flaws when you’re not living with that person.
The daily grind is something that dating just can’t fix. Trust me, four months ago sex seemed like the hottest thing going… There have already been nights where my wife and I have been bored of it or just not in the mood. Tired of sex would have seemed like an impossibility to me four months ago… And we’ve gotten better at it!
The grind is boring and mundane. Its suffocates you slowly until your panicking for a way out.
The grind is also where magic happens.
Luke 16:10 Jesus is not only talking about money ”One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.”
Jesus is referring to the “daily grind” of mundane tasks and disciplines of our lives. Hes not promising that by being faithful with a small amount of money you’re bound to hit the powerball… But what he is promising is that being faithful, grinding, and pushing, and laboring on, we’ll come face to face with the kingdom of God. A beauty that is nothing like our own. The same way my wife’s beauty is nothing like mine.
