Struggling With Discontentment in Your Marriage? A Biblical Response

Fierce Marriage

Ryan and Selena Frederick

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Today we explore the theology of contentment, challenging believers to stop calling their sin a "personality trait" and start fighting for the peace that only comes from a life fully surrendered to God’s sovereignty.RESOURCES:Master marital communication: https://speak.fiercemarriage.comTake the 31-Day Pursuit Challenge: https://31daypursuit.comPray for your spouse with intention: https://40prayers.comTo learn more about becoming a Christian, visit: https://thenewsisgood.comThis ministry is entirely listener-supported. To partner with us, visit https://fiercemarriage.com/partner Good news! You can now find FULL video episodes on our YouTube channel, The Fierce Family. Visit https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkyO4yVeRdODrpsyXLhEr7w to subscribe and watch. We hope to see you there!

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0:00.0	We tend to make excuses for ourselves. We make excuses for our sin saying, well, it's just kind of how I am. I've just grown up with this. I can't ever change.
0:08.4	There's not a lack of peace with the discontentment. So you can be discontent in a godly way where you still have peace. You're not losing sleep. You're not failing to trust God. I think we should examine, like, what does discontentment look like in your marriage?
0:19.6	What in your marriage tends to make your heart angry, make you impatient, what are you annoyed with, what are your general irritations? When we are discontent, we're basically in a sense saying to God, you don't know what's going on, I don't trust you. We just allow ourselves to fall victim to sin rather than reminding ourselves like we're in Christ. He's conquered sin and death.
0:38.2	If I have problems being fiery and angry in our marriage, I don't just let that go. And I'm also
0:43.4	not just automatically great at it the next day. We have sinful little hearts and we are prone to
0:48.6	wander, as the hymn says. We need him to draw us unto him to remind us that he is good. He is
0:53.6	trustworthy. He is powerful. He is trustworthy.
0:54.8	He is powerful.
0:55.3	He is loving.
1:05.1	Ryan, do you ever get discontent in our marriage?
1:07.3	Oh, starting out.
1:10.4	He said fight for energy and win.
1:11.5	I'm winning right now.
1:12.1	Are you winning?
1:13.6	You know what?
1:13.9	Yeah.
1:15.3	Yeah. What?
1:15.9	You're winning or your fight?
1:17.8	Well, to say that I never got discontented would say that would be to say that we never have an off day.
1:24.2	Right.
1:25.8	We are not human.
1:27.8	Yeah.
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