"Marriage has a better chance of making you holy than making you happy".
How do feel when you hear that statement?
I think that most who are married have realized the purifying affect that it has had on their character. In Ephesians, Paul talks about part of the husbands role in loving his wife is to lead her towards holiness. It states "Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless".
I have found that if I am loving my wife as I should, that it tends to make me more aware of my own selfishness, pride, and desire for me to be happy. This does not always make me happy to see these traits in myself. But the awareness of them allows me to confess them and draw near to God in humility.
I do believe that the more we are pursuing holiness that ultimately we will be happier. So marriage can be a tool to help us get there if we allow it to.
How have you seen marriage make you more holy?
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