I posted the following to Hopeful Husband last night.
It bears repeating here because you simply don't know the power behind you when you're trying to do the right thing.
No matter which side of the fence any of us find ourselves on, THIS is the TRUTH.
NOTHING CHANGES IT.
EVER!!
Quote: You need my help to strengthen your resolve? Well let's see...are you willing to stop at this point and spend the rest of your life wondering what would have happened if you'd waited just a little longer? That helped me in the early months when everything in the world told me there was no hope.
To this day, with divorce papers likely imminent, I still stand and proclaim that "YES! THERE IS HOPE!" If your spouse or my spouse, for whatever reason does not choose to grab onto that hope that's their choice, but for as long as we claim to be believers and witnesses it is our responsibility to stand.
Some would say "am I supposed to wait forever?".
How should I know?
That's between you and God so you'd best be cultivating a relationship with Him so YOU will know.
We, no matter our past mistakes, have been redeemed by the Blood of the Lamb and although the enemy stands ready to see us convicted every day for our sins, we have an Advocate in Jesus Christ.
Think of it like this: God is sitting on His Throne as Judge and satan, the prosecutor, is on one side telling Him all the things we are guilty of...it's not looking too good for us and we're facing the death penalty...
But then the Defense takes the floor and He makes the shortest argument in the history of the judicial system...
"It is all under the Blood".
That's it.
Case dismissed!
God cannot look at us while we are in this sinful flesh.
But through Christ, we have been redeemed.
God now sees us THROUGH the Blood.
He looks at us, the redeemed of the Lord, and He sees Christ!
Can you imagine?
It still gives me chills...
...but here's the kicker...precisely because of our newly strengthened faith, our redemption through Christ, our release from death row, if you will...we stand worthy to claim and receive EVERY SINGLE PROMISE GOD EVER MADE.
Health, joy, peace, success, love, prosperity....ALL OF IT is ours, BECAUSE OF THE BLOOD.
But the enemy has now gotten wind that we know who we are in Christ, and he's raising up all of hell against us because when he lost control of us, he lost our entire family units.
THAT'S RIGHT!
You can claim the salvation of your children AND your wife. The Bible says the unbelieving spouse is sanctified (MADE HOLY) by the believing spouse.
That's you.
Tell me it's not your place to stand longer.
I'll tell you that you've been deceived.
When we have been blessed enough to have the knowledge to choose, God says "choose life".
That, to me, means "STAND".
He never said we wouldn't be battered, bruised and bloody when we finish this race. He just promised us He'd see us through it. Sometimes, I don't know how. But I know what He said. And that is good enough for me to keep one hand reaching towards the sky come hell OR high water. In my case, they usually come together AND often .
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