That marriage is not the final destination. I struggle with discontentment and always looking for the next thing in life. When I was single, I wanted to be in a romantic relationship so bad. When I was dating, I yearned to be engaged so bad. When I was engaged, my heart grew weary of waiting for marriage. Now that I am married, I have to remind myself that my husband and my marriage is a gift but it isn’t everything and should not be everything. God will and always needs to be everything. Once God is first, marriage comes second, not the other way around. When we put God before our own desires and self, and our spouse, we are actually blessing the marriage more than if we put the marriage before God. God designed marriage to reflect him and when that vision is obscured, marriage for sure will lead to disappointment, emptiness, and dryness. I wish I would have really let that truth sink in, that marriage will not satisfy all of my heart because God always has a huge place to fill before any other relationship or thing in my life.
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