Your Spouse Is Not Your Trophy But Your Treasure

Don't pay the price David paid. Look ahead to his final hours. To see the ultimate cost of a neglected family, look at the way our hero dies. 

David is hours from the grave. A chill has set in that blankets can't remove. Servants decide he needs a person to warm him, someone to hold him tight as he takes his final breaths.Do they turn to one of his wives?  No. Do they call on one of his children? No. They seek "for a lovely young woman throughout all the territory of Israel . and she cared for the king, and served him; but the king did not know her" (1 Kings 1:3-4).

I suspect that David would have traded all his conquered crowns for the tender arms of a wife. But it was too late. He died in the care of a stranger, because he made strangers out of his family.  But it's not too late for you.  Make your wife the object of your highest devotion. Make your husband the recipient of your deepest passion. Love the one who wears your ring, and cherish the children who share your name.

Succeed at home first.