Marriage Maintenance-This Old House

There used to be this old show on PBS called "This Old House", where they would find an old neglected house and repair it. Sometimes that show reminds me of marriages that have been around a long time. I am always stunned when I find out a couple has divorced after 15, 20 or even 30 years of marriage. How did they make it that far to stumble so close to the finish line? What can I do to make sure that doesn't happen in my marriage? It is scary to think of. Church going Christians have just as high if not slightly higher divorce rate than the general population. What is up with that?

For what it is worth, I think it is the "This Old House" syndrome. Just like you get used to things in an old house, I think you start tolerating cracks and fractures in your marriage. I think it is easy to get lazy. I think it is easy to skip the maintenance. It is not that you are actively trying to do anything to destroy your marriage. You just quit doing anything to build it. My challenge to you today is to look around at the house of your marriage. Are there cracks in the foundation? Have you neglected the plumbing? Is the paint peeling? Ask God to show you where you can start to do some creative maintenance and restore that old house to the show place it was when you started. Have a great day!

Proverbs 14:1
The wise woman builds her house, but the foolish woman pulls it down with her own hands.