SENSE OF IT ALL

Hebrews 12 :7-9

It is for discipline that you have to endure.  God is treating you as sons.  For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?  If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.  9..Besides this, we have earthlt fathers who disciplined us and we respected them.  Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?

 

                                         “ SENSE OF IT ALL”

It really “sux” sometimes when you know you have made a mess of what God had in store for you.  I am like a child who has been caught red handed doing something wrong.  As many of you know, I had been having marital problems for a number of years.  Like any good Christian I wanted to keep my family together, even at the risk of putting an idol in front of God.

I always talked a big game about “ doing God’s will, not yours”, but when it came to giving up the woman I loved in my life, I was unable to turn it over to God.  I just kept telling myself, “God would want me to work on my marriage!”,  and I feel like he did want me to.  However, he never would want me or anyone else to put anyone or anything between us and Him.  For the past year or so, I have made my marriage my idol instead of God.  I have let my Blog and my Book fall aside in the shadow of my marriage, and for that my life has turned into a big mess.  Things have happened, that wouldn’t be so bad if I had just given in to the divorce a couple of years ago.  I had been reading 1 Cor 7:12-14, which basically says not to divorce your partner even if they are an unbeliever, however;  I would always skip 1 Cor 7:15 which basically says if your unbelieving partner separates from you, then you are released from your marital contract.  You see I was soo blinded by my wife and our marriage, that I was picking and choosing the verses in God’s word that fit my human desires…..and I now know that God will not stand for it.

 

As you know, I write for a lot of reasons: for peace of mind, for teaching God’s word, and for others reasons that leave me right now;  but the calling I have is real and I know that as I put God first, he will bless the work he has for me to do.

One last thing,  I whole heartedly believe that marriage is for life, and I whole heartedly believe that if my wife and I were both looking UP for guidance, none of this would be happening……meaning….Come together as couples and focus on God…..Make Him the focus on your marriage, and hopefully you will never have to go through what I am. 

 

God Bless!

I will be talking to my Publisher Monday afternoon about going on a little book tour to Christian Radio Stations to help market it, so keep it in your prayers…..It will be a good thing for me to do to take my mind off of my current situation.