Marriages Week 3

Resilience (resilience)
n.	(r?-z?l"?-ens)
Re*sil"i*ence

The act of resiling, springing back, or rebounding; as, the resilience of a ball or of sound.

The mechanical work required to strain an elastic body, as a deflected beam, stretched spring, etc., to the elastic limit] also, the work performed by the body in recovering from such strain.

This is the word the Lord gave me while I prayed yesterday for what he wanted for Married Couples in Midland's Body of Christ...Resilience. This definition comes from the 1828 Websters Dictionary and I was amazed at the descriptiveness of this word meaning.
The Lord also spoke to me about forgiveness and how these two go hand in hand...
Proverbs 17:9 says: He who forgives an offense seeks love, but he who repeats or harps on a matter separates even close friends.
My prayer is that we would be quick to forgive our spouse's offenses and that they would be quick to forgive our offenses...God's word makes it clear that we WILL offend those we love there is no way around that, but "bouncing back" from that is my prayer for Christ centered marriages, to "work...in recovery from such strain" as the dictionary states above...
This is how resilient Christ will make our marriages if we just PUSH through.