I'm PRAISING God this morning for what He has done in restoring another marriage. Eight years ago I started praying with my friend about her marriage, having only been married for under two years. As it always goes with two married people who become disappointed with who they married, they want to blame the other one, instead of working on their self.
As I met with my friend last night and heard how they EACH had come to terms with their own 'strongholds,' repenting and asking forgiveness of each other, I was soooo thankful to God for HIS faithfulness to answer 8 years of prayer for these two to become one - remaining faithful to their vows - and being thankful to God for it.
Only God can bring us to see the light/truth about ourselves in the way that can only bring true love and even restoration in a grievous marriage or in any relationship. AND, the same is true in everyone's need to have a real and fulfilled relationship with Jesus Christ; to see ourselves humbly in God's light and truth and love. The Bible gives it ALL!
Matthew 6:22-23, Jesus says about how we SEE people and situations: "The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!"
We need to SEE how God wants us to see, HEAR what we need to hear and accept, UNDERSTAND what we need to humbly understand, so that we can live how we should live and do what we should do - that brings glory to our Father God.
Mark 9:23, Jesus says to those who have lost hope and to those who doubt, “Everything is possible for one who believes.” Believes? Believes in what though? You can get help, but make sure that 'help' is rooted in their faith in the LORD and their lived out trust in His principles for life.
Mark 10:2-9 "Some Pharisees came and tried to trap him with this question: 'Should a man be allowed to divorce his wife?' Jesus answered them with a question: 'What did Moses say in the law about divorce?' Well, he permitted it, they replied. He said a man can give his wife a written notice of divorce and send her away. But Jesus responded, 'He wrote this commandment only as a concession to your HARD hearts. But God made them male and female from the beginning of creation. This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one. Since they are no longer two but one, let no one split apart what God has joined together.'”
As I look at our society and the culture of unfaithfulness, lawlessness, sexual immorality and gender alteration - it's so very clear how FAR from the truth and light of God - people are. To reject God and His Word is the WORSE thing in life because it not only ruins our earthly life but denies eternal life with our Father God.