Justified or Incarcerated

One of the verses that keeps me back to the scripture would be First Peter 3:7: "Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered." It puts me from being religious since service to God flows out from how me and my wife live.  I think that the popularity or pressure from others pushes man to compromise on their relationship while continuing praying and serving God.  By taking this verse literally, I understand that my prayers are empty if my relationship with my wife is broken.  The whole act of serving God becomes religious and vein if I depart from understanding my wife and honor her as a weak vessel.  

For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures ,  that he was buried , that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,   and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.  Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.   Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles.   Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.   For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.   But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.   Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.  (1 Corinthians 15:3)

Every person has his or her story how they met their love one. Especially singles have a high interest in knowing how two people come together and started a family. It's an interest to them because in the stories like that, singles look for directions towards their own personal life. I am writing this on my seven months of marriage anniversary, no I am not going to explain how we met and the drama began, I just want to point out few thoughts that fill my mind as this day approached since every story is God's story. "What.. God has joined together, let not man separate" (Mt 19:6). When I think of me being together with my wife, I think of God's grace. Grace is something that we don't deserve, it's Gods goodness and kindness in our everyday life. None of us deserve grace, it is a gift. That's how I see my story with Ira, she's a gift. There was a time in my foolishness I was ignoring her, if fact I was running away from her (that's a...