My thoughts on marriage. Is it just me or does it seem that more and more people we know, friends or family, are battling in tough marriages? From my perspective, as a follower of the way, I see this battle as one against the very real forces of the fallen angles. As we were persuaded to follow them, casting us into sin, our world, we as people, were under a curse. People were given a first chance to see that even through God given laws, we could not free ourselves from sin. Our stiff necked ways always falling back to sin after sometimes short progress toward following those laws; laws that could only cover our sin not remove it. I believe that Jesus Christ as He said it, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the father except through me” John 14-6 is our redeemer. I also have experienced firsthand that as you “come near to God and he will come near to you.” James 4-8. We make a step of faith toward God, asking Jesus into our heart, asking Jesus to put our broken lives back together, that we want to make a new start and from then on, to learn and to grow in our knowledge and faith in our Lord and Christ; to start to understand the meaning and the true work of Christ that He suffered for all our sins past, present, and future…It is done He said on the cross… He saves us from ourselves. Trust in Him, ask Him into your life. He is waiting for you.
We are so easily misguided by evil, so subtle, even blurred. Jesus will allow you to see the world through the blur.
Marriage… to be one; to let go of our pride, to forgive one another – every day; to admit you made a mistake, and to ask for forgiveness. When one day passes without forgiving, without humbling yourself to saying you were wrong, then another day, then weeks, then months and years… How much can you take? When you hear one man say that “Family is the most important thing!”, but this man is not of the family, and in fact a pawn of the fallen that is designed to further drive a wedge in the family, only to break it open revealing a false happiness that will only lead to more destruction. Why? This road is so much more pain, more length, more away from our Father.
Today, make up your mind that you will change, that you will fight for your marriage. To say that your marriage is something to cherish under God, that you will remember the first days of bliss with your spouse. Remember how you laughed, how you cried, how you were comfort and made comfortable, how you shared, how special it is to say…I have a family, we are one. Don’t let Satan drive a subtle wedge, a slow moving splinter into your marriage that will fester and break open. Let go of the weight, not by letting go of your husband or your wife, but by grabbing on to Christ with both hands and your spouse with your faith. God can heal the most broken…. Just ask. Stop the destruction of our family.
Brian Seibert, 11/29/13
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