O<\/b>ften couples are initially attracted to one another by the unique personality of the other person. As time passes, however, the very uniqueness that attracted them now become an irritant that threatens to divide and create strife.<\/p>\n
Our personalities are often the sandpaper that God uses to smooth our mates\u2019 rough edges. We have observed how the irritation of sand can produce a pearl in an oyster. God is producing something precious in your marriage as your personalities \u201crub against\u201d one another.<\/p>\n
Value your mate\u2019s extroversion while your spouse respects your introversion.<\/p>\n
Learn from a spouse\u2019s visionary preferences as that mate benefits from your focus on details.<\/p>\n
Benefit from your spouse\u2019s feelings and emotion when you can get beyond your thoughts and logic.<\/p>\n
Enjoy a mate\u2019s spontaneity even as your spouse will be helped by your organization and structure.<\/p>\n
Try this: Take a personality inventory or temperament survey. A valuable resource is Please Understand Me II by David Keirsey. Share with your mate what traits you cherish and value in their personality.<\/p>\n
Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.<\/i><\/p>\n
Rom. 15:7 NIV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Often couples are initially attracted to one another by the unique personality of the other person. As time passes, however, the very uniqueness that attracted them now become an irritant that threatens to divide and create strife. Our personalities are often the sandpaper that God uses to smooth our mates\u2019 rough edges. We have observed … Continue reading “55 THANK GOD FOR THE GIFT OF YOUR MATE\u2019S PERSONALITY”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}