How are you called to sacrifice yourself for your spouse?

I'm John Fuller along with Greg Smalley and his wife Aaron who head up the focus marriage team and Greg I wonder if there's a specific way that you can recall where you served Aaron and lo it went well for you after you did that.

Yeah definitely that that servant attitude brings so much joy

to my life because I think one that's how we're operating within God's design.

So especially as a husband, we're being told to love our wife

as Christ loved the church.

It's all about sacrificing.

Christ gave his life.

So I can give my time or resources those kinds of things to really

to sacrifice for her so I think there's part of that that's how God designed it you

know Jesus modeled serving, you know, think about how he washed the feet

of the disciples and there's just so many great examples. Jesus came not to be served, but to serve. So I think all that's great. John, when I think about

the joy though, again, those things that I referenced, I mean, they give me joy, but but honestly 32 years of marriage I think part of the

joy that I have in serving air and is this a deep deep, so hear me, deep appreciation

for the fact that she stood up at the altar 32 years ago

and agreed to go on this journey with me to kind of put her heart out there, to allow

me to be her husband and to be a part of this journey with her.

And I get now the courage that that took for her to do that in such a way

that there's such a deep gratitude that I want to honor her courage and be that person who God wants me to be but to be that

that person in her life that truly does make her life easier. I didn't get that when we first got married like I get that now there's a

responsibility there like like the courage that she said you know yes to

spending her life with me that's a big, big deal and I want to honor that.

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