LOVE IS A THREE-LEGGED RACE

 

Friday, April 11, 2025

 

LOVE IS A THREE-LEGGED RACE

Eph 4:32

32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

 

          I remember, as a child, the end-of-year field trips to the park. One of the constant features was the sack races and the three-legged races. One forced upon the contestant a limitation without aid. The other forced two to run as one by binding together the inboard legs. Each runner must cooperate with the other if they were to finish.

 

          Partners must decide who will determine the cadence. The bound legs must work as one. Love and marriage are like that. Each runner must rely on the other by yielding individuality.

 

          As we age, individual strengths fade, and the best relationships have learned to lean on one another while yielding weaknesses to the stronger partner.

 

Eph 5:24-25

24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

 

Dear Lord, let me learn the strengths and weaknesses of my partner. Let me surrender pride to her strengths and let my strengths support her in her weaknesses. And let us run together so that we may finish and perhaps win. AMEN