Model Marriage by Bishop Dag Heward Mills

The Key of Acceptance

3. Accept the Negative Things in Your Spouse’s Character.
   
   
   • Diagnose the negative aspects of your spouse’s character and accept them.
   
   
   
   


4. Accept the Physical Structure or Looks of Your Spouse.
   
   
   • We all change physically as the years go by. Do not make it your life’s goal to
     make your spouse reduce or increase in size. Your flow with your spouse must
     not be dependent on whether or not he/she changes physically.
   
   
   • Every spouse must make the effort to maintain good looks. There is beauty at
     every age. Enhance your physical looks. Do not neglect this just because you
     know that your Christian spouse will be faithful to you all the time.
   
   
   
   

Other Things You Must Accept

1. Accept Peace and Decide Not to Quarrel.

Make up your mind that peace is better than war and that it is better to live in peace than to
prosecute every issue and stretch every matter.

If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

Romans 12:18

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy

to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without

hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make

peace.

James 3:17-18

2. Accept that it Is Your Christian Duty Not to Provoke Another to
   Anger and Bitterness.

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

Hebrews 10:24

We are “to provoke one another to love and good works” not to bitterness and hatred.
“Consider”, which means “ to think carefully about”, and discover new ways to love people and
to do good to them.

3. Accept that God Alone Can Change and Solve Complex Issues, so

Commit Things to God, to Time, to the Elements, and to Nature.

God Can Deal With Many Things.