
How similar do two people really need to be for a relationship to thrive? When God is truly highlighting the person you will marry one day, will this be marked by an extreme level of compatibility?

After decades of studying the Scriptures on relationships, I’m convinced that the roles for husbands and wives are really a matter of emphasis rather than absolutes.
In other words, there are very few things that a wife must never do while a husband must always do, or that a husband must never do and a wife must always do. And yet, to deny that there are God-ordained differences between the roles of a husband and wife would be a huge, unbiblical mistake.

In my previous article called This Truth Will Bring Peace to Your Marriage, we discussed that for a husband and wife to be able to enjoy each other, they must first be able to say to God, “You are my Lord. I have no good without you,” (Psalm 16:2). Only when our God-needs are met are we then free to have our people-needs met.