My intentions are great; my follow-through is terrible.
At our previous home, I designed a lighted bookcase to fit at the bottom of the stairs.
My plan was to make it a lovely reading nook. I was going to buy a cushion for the top and stencil in a quote or Bible verse on the center back wall. But, despite living in that house for six years, we moved out with the bookshelf looking the same as the day we built it.
I’ve had similar outcomes with the countless workout routines and diets I’ve started. Same for the quiet time programs or prayer journals. If you were to look back down the path of my life, you would see multiple unfinished plans and projects that all started with good intentions.
My intentions are great; my follow-through is terrible.
Sadly, the same can is true about my marriage. Most of my plans never come to fruition. In my devotional, For the Love of Our Husbands, I challenge wives to prioritize their lives so that they invest in their spouse.
I need a reminder of this important truth. I don’t want to look back at the end of my life and think about all the great ideas and intentions I had for Jason and our marriage that never came to completion. The reality is that I often have minimal follow-through in my most important earthly relationship, and if I keep it up, I will ultimately regret choosing whatever people, projects, or practicalities that prevented me from following through.
It makes me think of the children’s poem, Mr. Meant-to:
Mr. Meant-to has a comrade,
And his name is Didn’t-do;
Have you ever chanced to meet them?
Did they ever call on you?These two fellows live together
In the house of Never-win,
And I’m told that it is haunted,
By the ghost of Might-have-been.
I don’t know about you, but being a Mrs. Meant-to is not one of my wifely goals. I want to be a deliberate wife! My husband must rise on my priority list so that he comes before anything else that might be keeping me from investing in him, and I need to follow through on great intentions. God has given us each gifts and talents that we can use to love our husbands right now. Ecclesiastes 7:8 tells us that, “The end of a matter is better than its beginning, and patience is better than pride.” My intentions will end better than I can even imagine if I would just follow-through!
Let’s follow-through with loving our husbands well.
How is your follow-through?
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