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I'm Dalton, a member of the Paul Trip Ministries team.

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This week, as we continue our series on discipleship, Paul wants to encourage us to look for opportunities

to be premarital counselors in other people's lives, but not in the way you might initially

think. Here's

this week's Wednesday's word. I was only 18 when I asked Luella to marry me. I really loved her,

but I didn't yet know how to love her. I was a committed Christian and wanted to do marriage God's way, but I lacked

wisdom and maturity. Love? No. Speak. Do. I knew what was written within the pages of Scripture,

but I needed someone to apply those biblical principles to

the realities of this particular area of my life. Thankfully, I received much counsel in my early

years as a husband. But still, more than 50 years later, others continue to help me learn

a little more each day about what it means to love Luella as Christ loved the church

and gave himself up for her, Ephesians 5.25.

I'm still asking Luella to forgive me.

I still need to be rebuked and still benefit from accountability.

Others still help me identify areas of spiritual blindness and alert me when I step outside of

God's boundaries.

Change constantly requires a deeper understanding of the things of God and a more careful application of those truths to our lives.

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