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Post by Mary H on Apr 29, 2016 13:02:11 GMT -5
What if this life isn't about our feelings? About our wants & desires? About our stands? Our comforts, convenices, & control.. What if this life is actually about glorifying our Lord, & striving to fall in love with Jesus each day, & that's it? Nothing else matters.. Nothing. Not divorce, not betrayal, not lies, not even keeping our marriages & families together.. Although it's good to want to keep our families together, sometimes we focus too much on it! Like its our goal we strive for rather than falling in love with Christ each day as our goal.. We get decived into thinking our motives are right, when infact were way too focused on our stands because we're too focused on our emotions.. Our desires.. We look at our spouses & think they are so decived & selfish; yet we are actually very selfish too by refusing to take our focus off of our feelings & desires & just simply eat Christs flesh & drink Christs blood each & every day.. John 6:54... Focusing on the cross alone on Grace alone should sustain us & cause us to fall in love with the Lord each day Not weather or not we get what we want in life. It all starts with the choices we make.. Will we stop letting our thoughts roam free? Will we finally take each & every though captive to Christ, & make the choice to dwell more on His love & sacrifice than we do on our feelings & circumstance?
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Post by tkk2 on May 1, 2016 5:52:47 GMT -5
Amen Mary! So very true, but so difficult to implement. I turned s corner in my stand in last 8 weeks. While i will continue to stand for my marriage. ..really i stand for God. I gave my marriage to God that day. If divorce is what it takes to bring my husband back to Him, then I'm ok with the divorce. I will always be married in my heart and will always wear my ring as such.
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Post by Adrienne on May 1, 2016 9:54:45 GMT -5
Praise God TK for the firm resolve in your heart. I will continue praying for you for peace and strength.
Mary, thank you for sharing this perspective. It convicts and inspires me...!
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Post by Eric W. on May 1, 2016 11:38:10 GMT -5
Remove the plank from our own eyes...
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Post by Mary H on Jun 3, 2016 20:11:41 GMT -5
Reading back on this post.. Really actually aggravates me! Lol this was weeks before things got really off between Tony & I. It was around this time when I began really pushing for commitment & when I was a lot more focused on my hurt & was beginning to be pretty bitter.. I would get in these very wise modes for a couple of days (the Lord was blessing me with His wisdom aka giving me a way to escape the temptation to dwell on my situation & hurts), but then I'd get lazy & just cave into letting my thoughts think whatever bitter self-focused thoughts I wanted & would end up with holding love & having a attitude with Tony often. This post was the Lord pouring down His wisdom, & me sort of angrily trying to convince myself already to REALLY take a stand, & share it with you all too. I'm now DETERMINED to stay the course! Eyes on Jesus! Eyes OFF of Tony unless I'm casting out satan & asking the Lord to forgive him & draw him. I'm DETERMINED to put God first & do what's right every day even if I don't feel like it! I pray that I STAY determined & bold faith when tony comes back! I have a good feeling that I will! I have a deep feeling from the Holy Spirit that he will be back soon. I have to be ready!
Tk, I'm so glad u turned a corner in your stand! I feel that I have too since Tony left! Such a blessing that our Lord pours down His faith into us so we can do our part & commit ourselves to Him!
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Post by fordlindsey5314 on Jun 4, 2016 10:29:45 GMT -5
Wow Mary, I needed to see this again to realize that I am way too focused on Andy and our circumstance... it's been so bad that I can't focus on anything else. I have been focusing on all of the negative and hurtful things that he has said to me, almost to the point of giving up on my stand. This post made me realize that I need to give my marriage to God and try to find things to keep me busy but to also lean more into God and focus on him. It's been so hard... school is out so I'm not working, and my brain won't focus on anything else. Ok, sorry, I know this was all over the place ha.
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Post by Sharon on Jun 7, 2016 9:54:10 GMT -5
Mary thank you so much! I don't think you realize how much you have helped me along in my stand too! What you told me the other day - to let Chris go. It really helped shift my focus from Chris is responsible to me as a husband to instead Chris is a brother in Christ and although I care about him, I can't stress or worry over his decisions anymore. He is in Gods hands and it's a huge burden off my shoulders.
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Post by pstokes522 on Jun 7, 2016 23:43:58 GMT -5
Amen Sharon. The burden is not ours to carry - it is God's!
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