Relationship Builder: Grab a Shovel & Start Digging

The Bible teaches us that we have this treasure in earthen vessels. That’s also mining terminology. Miners understand and demonstrate the ability to diligently search until they uncover treasure hidden in dirt.
Listen to me: inside of your husband, inside of your wife, there is something valuable that God has placed deep down inside of them. You caught glimpses of it in the past, like light hitting the tip of a diamond hidden under a pile of dirt. You’ve seen snap shots of it, and as the lens opened up and you saw pictures of it while you were dating, it made you fall madly in love.

Today, though, life has thrown dirt all over that treasure, and now all you feel like you do all day is spend time sifting through dirt, clump after clump, pile after pile. Talk to a miner, and he’ll tell you that you have to move a ton of dirt to get to one ounce of gold. The problem is, we don’t go into marriage understanding that. All we saw up front was easy-to-find pieces of the treasure, handed to us, all pre-polished. We didn’t even have to dig to find it! We go into marriage and it is all hope, all potential, all gold.

However, the fact is that marriage is like mining. You’re going to have to sift through a ton of dirt .You have to get in there with your bull dozer to find the ounces of gold, but man, how precious that gold is once you find it! If you talk to the miner long enough, he’ll also share with you that he never went in there looking for the dirt, he only dealt with the dirt because he knew the dirt was just part of the process in getting to the gold. Some of you thought marriage was gold, and you didn’t know dirt was part of the process—now that you’re mining through the dirt, don’t forget that there’s gold hidden there.

Relationship Builder Action Step: Are you sifting through the dirt right now? Don’t quit! Keep shoveling that dirt! There is not a person reading this who does not have something precious and valuable in them under the dirt. Don’t let the dream of an uncommon marriage die on the doorstep. You’re closer than you think.