Avoid Marriage on Autopilot

Avoid Marriage on Autopilot

I have learned that in a Marriage you can’t live in Auto Pilot. When you find your marriage in Auto Pilot things will start to go in Directions that you don’t want. Have you ever gotten in your car, driven to your destination and not remembered how you got there? Your thoughts wandered somewhere else and your brain went in autopilot mode while you drove from point A to point B. so think about this in a marriage. How you got to a point in your marriage and wondered how we got here. It’s probably because you went into autopilot and your mind wondered away from what you needed to do. Just like we have to fight to stay present behind the wheel, we have to fight the temptation to go into autopilot in the marriage.  We have so many things that get in the way of what we should focus on and that’s our spouse. Don’t go through you marriage in Autopilot make sure you pay attention to each other. Make sure you keep the dating in the marriage.  When you find yourself falling into this trap with everyday life stop grab your spouse and just go for a walk. Remember life will wait.

This goes for our spiritual life also.  Hebrews 2:1 says, “We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we don’t drift away.” Paying careful attention requires an active listening and our full focus. We want to protect ourselves rom drifting away from our Faith and our Marriages.  We do this by listening to God and doing what He says. In Mathew 4:4, Jesus says Gods word is as important to our survival as food. God speaks to us as we read the Bible, pray and listen to His voice. There are many verses in the Bible about marriages so read and listen to them. I know I am not the one who should be given advice on this but God has put this on my heart to write.

As Christians, we know our final destination. However, we don’t want to drift and miss all that God has for us on our Journey in our life and Marriages. 

Are there and areas in your Marriages where you need to pay more careful attention?

Is there anything God is asking you to do in your marriage that you’re not?