Marriage Minute: Forgiveness Is Free. Trust Isn't.

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Hey friends, welcome to the Marriage Minute on the Naked Marriage Podcast. Every Friday, we're dropping a new short episode to give you a quick jolt of encouragement for your marriage. This also serves as a sneak preview for this coming Monday's brand new episode. We hope you enjoy today's Marriage Minute.

Forgiveness and trust are two different things.

Yes.

So you don't— it's not reasonable to just automatically give trust when untrustworthy behavior keeps happening. You can get forgiveness automatically because grace is not earned. It's given freely. God models this for us by giving us his grace when we're at our worst. Jesus died for us, paid the price. So we receive that grace and we give that grace to one another. But trust is something that is different. It has to be earned. It has to be earned through consistency in action.

Thank you for tuning in to today's Marriage Minute. I hope it was an encouragement to you. Don't forget to come back on Monday for a brand new full-length episode of the Naked Marriage Podcast. We'll see you then.

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