Pink & Blue Make Purple - February 25

Are Men and Women Different?

Emmerson Eggerichs tells us that women see the world with pink sunglasses and hear with pink hearing aids, while men see the world with blue sunglasses and hear with blue hearing aids.

In a hilarious video we heard Mark Gungor's "Tale of Two Brains" where he shows how different we are as men and women in the way we think and respond.

Good Irritations

Those differences can unite or divide. God uses our spouse to be the refining process of our character. Because no matter how irritating my spouse might be, my response is my responsibility. It is not what happens to us, it is what happens to us that makes the difference. Your spouse does not cause you to be the way you are, they merely reveal your true self.

Sand in the bathing suit can at times be extremely irritating, but in the oyster it can lead to a pearl. How we perceive and respond to the irritations of life, especially in the marital relationship, determines the results. Principle: "I can experience hurt, but it is my choice to hate."

Change our prayer from "Change them and bless me" to "Change me and bless them."

"Marriage is a tool and a test to allow God's will to be revealed in our lives."

Whining and contempt has never drawn a spouse in. "Disrespect never motivates love, and lack of love never motivates respect."

Ephesians 5:31-33

"For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh." This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband."

God commands men to love their wife and women to respect their husbands. Not because they deserve it or earn it, but because it is what God commands us to do. Ultimately we are really showing respect and love to God when we do it for our spouse, irregardless of their reciprocation or lack their of. When husband and wife are united as one in mutual submission and in submission as one under God, pink and blue can make for purple: hearts fully united and devoted.