A Magnificent Obsession for Your Marriage

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 9 August 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Scripture commands to seek God above anything else. But how do you stay focused on the Lord when life gets busy in your marriage? Greg, Erin and John provide some insights on how to stay focused on your purpose as a couple. Featuring Gary Thomas.

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0:00.0	Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't
0:04.7	grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I
0:10.2	take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I
0:14.4	ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't
0:18.8	shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love
0:23.6	with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app
0:28.3	today.
0:35.9	You know in the scripture we're encouraged, we're commanded to seek God first
0:40.3	and foremost. Now when you're in a relationship with a spouse, what does that
0:46.2	mean? What does it mean when you and your spouse submit your marriage to
0:50.2	Christ and seek God first in your marriage? Well, I'm John Fuller in the studio
0:55.0	along with Greg and Erin Smolley. They lead our marriage department here. We're
0:59.0	going to hear now from Gary Thomas who has some really wonderful perspectives
1:03.4	about the Christian life and marriage. Here he is speaking with Jim Daley. You
1:08.3	believe every marriage should have a magnificent obsession. Mine happens to be
1:13.7	cleaning my garage. Is that my session does it make it magnificent? Does that fit in
1:21.0	your definition? My wife is cleaning the kitchen. We can't leave the house if
1:27.2	it's not obsessively clean because we might die when we're gone and somebody might
1:32.1	see our kitchen when we go back. I always think it's funny. Anyway, the
1:36.2	magnificent obsession is I'm stealing that phrase from a classical writer several
1:41.0	hundred years ago to summarize Jesus's words in Matthew 633 when he says
1:46.5	seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. That word first is very
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