3 Things Your Spouse Can’t Be For You- Thing 3 | Ep. 93
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 802 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2017
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
A lot of times in marriage we place unrealistic expectations on our spouse. This week we are going to be talking about that issue. We will be discussing 3 things your spouse can’t be for you. Dr. Kim and Christina discuss the 1st thing today: your savior.
Tune in to learn more about why your spouse can’t be this for you.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Awesome Marriage Podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage and how to have the relationship that God has designed for you. |
| 0:09.8 | I am your co-host, Christina Dodson. |
| 0:11.9 | On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberling and Nell Smith. |
| 0:15.8 | To engage with the Awesome Marriage podcast, use the hashtag Awesome Marriage. |
| 0:23.0 | So today on the Awesome Marriage podcast, we're hashtag awesome marriage. So today on the awesome marriage podcast, |
| 0:28.4 | we're going to be doing our third mini series podcast on three things that your spouse cannot be for you. So today is the last one. And today's thing that your spouse can't be is your savior. |
| 0:33.8 | So Dr. Kim, it sounds pretty obvious, but why can't our spouse be our savior? |
| 0:39.5 | You know, we talked some in the first one about the problem of trying to make her spouse meet all our needs. |
| 0:44.6 | And the bottom line is, I'm not Jesus. I'm not God. That job is taken. And so I can't be her savior in any way at all. And so I think when we try to be someone's savior, we set ourselves up for failure and when someone wants us to be their savior, it's just something that we are not equipped today. |
| 1:03.7 | We're sinners. |
| 1:04.6 | And so we've got the best savior there is. |
| 1:07.7 | And so that's who we have to let be savior in our lives. |
| 1:10.3 | Yeah, absolutely. That's good. |
| 1:12.3 | So how do you see couples kind of believing this lie that their spouse should be their savior? |
| 1:17.7 | I think that goes back some expectations, that your spouse should meet every need. That would certainly |
| 1:23.3 | be one of them because, you know, it's funny because, I mean, God didn't meet, I mean, |
| 1:28.1 | meets our needs, yes, but he doesn't answer every prayer. I mean, if I'm praying for a new, |
| 1:32.9 | you know, $100,000 sports car, odds are that God's going to think that's probably not |
| 1:37.3 | best for me right now because I would ride off in the sunset somewhere. So never come back. |
| 1:43.9 | I think becoming another way would become very, |
| 1:47.1 | very dependent on your spouse and just to, and maybe sometimes not in an overt way, but just for |
| 1:53.6 | you, just expect them to always take care of you, always do everything for you, always looking |
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