The easiest thing to do in marriage is to hide from each other in broad daylight, keeping from your wife/husband your failures, repeated sins, and all those things that you aren’t proud of.
We tell ourselves that the reason we’re keeping it from our spouse is, we know it would hurt them and we want to spare him/her the pain. But, that’s not the real reason, is it? The truth is we want to spare ourselves the shame of exposure, humility, and confession.
And it doesn’t have to be “the big stuff”. It’s even easier to keep the “little” things from him or her – what we deem the small sins, the insignificant little things that we think they don’t really need to know.
Are there things in your life that you are keeping from your spouse? This way of thinking and living is the path to distance, coldness, and heartache down the road. To experience the marriage that God intended for the two of you there can be no hidden sin of any kind from your spouse.
The “oneness” spoken of in the Bible can never be experienced if husband or wife (or both) are hiding sin from each other. “Confess your sins, one to another, that you may be healed.” James 5:16
Let today be the day you come into the Light and move forward in your marriage on a solid foundation of transparency, trust, and a love for each other without the shadows of sin. This is the topic of FAITHFUL LIFE podcast, Marriage Weekend Edition: No Hidden Sin With the One You Love.
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