Leveling the marriage field

Romans 3:22-23
For there is no distinction among people, since all have sinned and continue to fall short of God's glory.

This scripture has been sitting in my mind lately as My wife and I have been going through the growing experience of cultivating a better scripture based marriage. So often we find ourselves at different "levels" of faith in and devotion to God, His Word, and life in general, but how easily we are tricked to genuinely believe that on our lives. We can find ourselves portraying an image of perfection to those we love by our actions and words. Nothing new under the sun right? Satan fell to this and then fell to earth apart from God's presence.
We can, in the desire to be so "Holy and Righteous", find ourselves forgetting neither come from us or our works, but instead from Jesus - the only perfect man.

Isaiah 64:6
"All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away."

Galatians 2:20
I no longer live, but the Messiah lives in me, and the life that I am now living in this body I live by the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

We forget that we are all sinners saved by grace through faith, not by our own works, because we are prone to boasting, positioning, and ranking in a Kingdom that isn't a democracy or capitalist system of greater or lesser than, but a Kingdom with a King on the throne and all His children co-laboring as equals pressing for the same goal.
We have a life based not on how much we do, but how much Jesus did! When My wife and I realized, we both are not perfect and are struggling no different than any believer that is on this side of The veil, freedom came. Breakthrough came in knowing we are and have been side by side this whole time even though our eyes weren't open to it.

Romans 12:3
For by the grace given to me I ask every one of you not to think of yourself more highly than you should think, rather to think of yourself with sober judgment on the measure of faith that God has assigned each of you.

This scripture is still my central theme of this season,

Hebrews 3:1
"Therefore, holy brothers, partners in a heavenly calling, keep your focus on Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession."

Learning more and more it's never about looking at ourselves or others, but to keep focus on Jesus as our perfecter of Faith through grace and love.
- Posted in the moment

Location:Coffee shop