It will be an ongoing lifelong challenge
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life. (Proverbs 4:23 ESV)
We’re driven to change
So we aren’t depressed. But even if our bodies are breaking down on the outside, the person that we are on the inside is being renewed every day. (2 Corinthians 4:16 CEB)
With God as our point of reference
Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take. (Proverbs 3:6 NLT)
When God is at the center of our marriage
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. (1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV)
He wants us to triumph
But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere. (2 Corinthians 2:14 ESV)