Ladies, what is the current condition of your marriage?
For all wives, this is a difficult question that needs to be asked regularly, it is very easy to get carried away and go into self-protection mode, or worse, to discover that our disappointments and desires have turned into demands of resentment and to believe that they deserve to receive more from the marriage and the husband.
- Our unstable hearts move easily out of the way as we rise above all.
- In our reluctance to repent.
- We turn our backs on God and the man we love.
- We’d like to think we’re humble.
- But we’re not.
- May God open our eyes.
- Convince us of our sin.
- And lead us to repentance.
I will not even begin to pretend that I have a message that does not include me as guilty, although I have not committed adultery during my 17 years of marriage and will not finish it, however I am guilty of the sin that leads to this destiny.
“Grace is deceptive and vain, beauty, but the woman who fears the Lord will be praised. Proverbs 31. 30
Carefully return to me at the beginning of humanity, the Garden of Eden. Our first mother was raised on her husband’s coast by a loving and loving father who placed her there in the middle of paradise. Unfortunately, women often don’t recognize that we have something good, even if it surrounds us everywhere.
Eve faced a simple question from the snake and her conclusion was: “God refuses to give me anything. I deserve more than that. My eyes are delighted” (Genesis 3. 6). I think I’m going to take this subject into my own hands. ?
Eve was not afraid of the Lord
He was more afraid of losing something he thought he deserved than of disobeying God. We are more like Eva than we have the courage to admit. We do not appreciate God’s provision (Ephesians 2) of grace (unmerited favor) and mercy. (unmerited forgiveness). We disagree and decide that we deserve something more comfortable and easier than the struggles we face.
We do not trust in his goodness (Psalm 27), but on the contrary, we invent our own plan to obtain satisfaction or to escape something, convincing us that momentary pleasure is better; we do not believe that his remarkable and precious promises (1 Peter 1) apply to our current struggle. They don’t seem fast enough or tangible enough to eliminate our anxiety and exhausting pain.
Sisters, we’re wrong. We must repent, we must be women who fear the Lord.
“The fear of the Lord leads to life; whoever has it will be satisfied, and hardly anyone will visit him. Proverbs 19. 23
Life is in the shadow of the cross. He gave everything for us and, one way or another, we always find ourselves inventing contingency plans, moving away from where freedom and forgiveness are to what we think life is in the arms of another, be it another man, a drink, money. or another functional savior.
We are told that he who fears the Lord is satisfied; when we find ourselves wandering in the arms of another lover it is because we are not afraid of the Lord; Do we not fear the holy and righteous God who does not tolerate sin?we just want what we want. Right now.
Satisfaction comes purely and exclusively knowing that there is nothing like living our lives in submission to its glory.
As a woman who fears the Lord, you will suffer no evil; For a woman who truly loves and fears the Lord, evil is defined only as being in a situation where God is not close, we will never find ourselves in this situation. your daughters, we will never be out of your sovereignty, the righteousness of Christ, or the comfort of the Holy Ghost.
I know it often seems that evil will attack us and end us. In those moments, we have to fight. Ironically, it is at this time that the still, still spirit of a woman who pleases God must emerge (1 Peter 3).
The struggle must be like actively proclaiming the gospel of Truth, fighting your deceptive heart and against the enemy determined by vengeance. The struggle must seem like a total and total submission, based on the power and provision of the Lord who sustains you. No harm? Defined as God’s absence?will come to the woman who fears the Lord.
Repentance begins with God-centered worship. Leave behind the worship of yourself and the empty places where you sought life. Wrap yourself in the arms of forgiveness and love of your Father who wants to be merciful to you. Pray for a marriage, that is truly based on the gospel. It begins with the recognition that the most amazing place to be is far from Him, and that the safest, quietest, most pleasant place is in the Father’s hands.