While criticism and domestic violence will eventually destroy or severely diminish intimacy and closeness, tolerance coupled with compassion strengthens what potential there is for compatibility. What is compatibility, and what significant role does it play in marriage and friendships?
Compatibility is synonymous with harmony and unity. It implies similarities in goals, intelligence, values, faith in God, the Bible and the Lord Jesus Christ. Compatibility is the glue that bonds people together, regardless of life’s problems. Trust and respect are the relationship’s bonding agents.
A couple’s differences can complement and strengthen the relationship while compatibility ensures stability and builds feelings of security and safety. Psalm 133:1 affirms, “How good and pleasant for God’s people to live together in harmony.”
Treasure every aspect of your existing compatibility and time together.
Do all you have to do
without grumbling or arguing, so that you may be blameless and harmless,
faultless children of God, living in a warped and diseased age, and shining
like lights in a dark world.
~Philippians 2:14-15 Phillips
– New Testament In Modern English
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