Jeremiah 12:5

“If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you,
Then how can you contend with horses?
And if in the land of peace,
In which you trusted, they wearied you,
Then how will you do in the floodplain of the Jordan?

One of the major matters arising in marriage is that of the management of success. We are all struggling to succeed in our business and every area of life. Many, whose homes was a place of peace and fellowship with God during the time they were struggling became something else when success came. Many even go into things that scatter their homes and even terminate their lives in the process. When success comes, it often leads to problems at home if you don’t learn how to manage success in your finances:
• You may start seeing imaginary faults in your spouse. You may never know a man that is God-fearing and faithful to his marital vows until success comes. You also can’t say a woman is submissive to her husband until God prospers her in her business or she gets a lifting.
• You may become too busy to pay attention to your children. For instance, it may become expedient for them to be kept in the hostel even during the holidays. You would have forgotten that if those children are not properly trained, they may be the one that will scatter all that you have gathered.
• You may start living your life as if the economy can never have problems or that your company can never fold up.
• You may start relating with friends that will lead you to ruin. Success can make you to start moving with strange friends who may turn out later to be agents of the devil, positioned in your life to ensure that are ruined eventually.
• You may find it difficult to listen to your spouse any longer.
• You may start accumulating liabilities which will ultimately lead to your downfall. You may decide to build a house that will require fortunes to maintain and buy luxury cars that will become a drain on your finances.
• Your pastor or spiritual mentors may become less and less important to you, making you to grow independent of your God.

Managing your life when success comes requires more wisdom and perspective than managing your life when you are still struggling to make ends meet. This is because success gives you more options to explore. You must make up your mind that when God blesses you with more abundant financial resources, you will allow the voice of reason to guide you so that you don’t throw away things that matter in your life.

DISCUSSION POINTS WITH YOUR SPOUSE
• Frankly look at your life, are there issues with your spouse when you just collect your salary or when God blesses you with extra resources?
• Is it possible for you to promise each other that however abundant the financial resources that God blesses you with, you will still take counsel from each other?

PRAYER
Father, help me that whatever the financial resources you bless my life with, I’ll manage my life with wisdom from you in Jesus’ name.

QUOTABLE QUOTE
YOU MAY NEVER BE SURE THAT A MAN IS FAITHFUL TO GOD AND HIS MARITAL VOWS UNTIL SUCCESS COMES; YOU MAY ALSO NEVER BE SURE THAT A WOMAN IS SUBMISSIVE UNTIL GOD BLESSES HER WITH FINANCIAL RESOURCES. -Dr. Mike Oluniyi

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