Dear 3AM,
I am sorry about not answering your post.
There's a couple of reasons why: It's having to do with my marriage of almost 31 years. I could say that it is the worst possible situation I could ever imagine that could happen to me. Needless to say, it occupies most of my energy being in prayer and asking for love, mercy and forgiveness to be manifested through me. As I have received this love from Christ, so it is my most greatest desire to extend the same to my poor misguided husband. Not an easy thing to do, but not impossible by God's grace and love. No quick fixes here. No just quoting a verse and making it all go away. It's always been that way for me. God just won't let me get away with superficial religious practices - they just pushed my husband away anyway. Well, I don't want to air my personal problems here, but I just wanted to say that FOR ME the path of love is the way to go.
In the end of all things, how I loved will be what matters, I believe. Not if there's a hell or what happens at what resurrection. This is why I try to the best of my ability to lift up Christ - so that one will be drawn to Him not a doctrine or a denomination or anything else. He will take care of the rest.
And I do appreciate your prayers for no one has all the answers. If I am delusional, I trust that God will lead me into all truth. For He will accomplish what He has begun in me. I believe that will all my heart.
Another reason why I didn't go into answering your post is that we were getting into a scripture battle which I believe is fruitless. If two are not in agreement.......well you know the rest. There's a connection that gets derailed when words and "being right" become more important than the Savior which bought us with His blood.
However, I know that I'll be back again after I retreat into His love- hiding in the shadow of His wings - waiting for the healing that WILL come through HIS love.
Reading the "love chapter" in Corinthians helps me to remember how HE loves. Love never fails. He has written that as a banner across my heart. This is my REALITY. This is my REAL God, sis. Not some dead words on a page - a list of do's and don'ts. No, He's the Living Word in action NOW in my life.
So you see we are coming from different views.
I pray abundant blessings to you in Christ Jesus, our Lord. \o/
In His Love, GH
I am sorry about not answering your post.
There's a couple of reasons why: It's having to do with my marriage of almost 31 years. I could say that it is the worst possible situation I could ever imagine that could happen to me. Needless to say, it occupies most of my energy being in prayer and asking for love, mercy and forgiveness to be manifested through me. As I have received this love from Christ, so it is my most greatest desire to extend the same to my poor misguided husband. Not an easy thing to do, but not impossible by God's grace and love. No quick fixes here. No just quoting a verse and making it all go away. It's always been that way for me. God just won't let me get away with superficial religious practices - they just pushed my husband away anyway. Well, I don't want to air my personal problems here, but I just wanted to say that FOR ME the path of love is the way to go.
In the end of all things, how I loved will be what matters, I believe. Not if there's a hell or what happens at what resurrection. This is why I try to the best of my ability to lift up Christ - so that one will be drawn to Him not a doctrine or a denomination or anything else. He will take care of the rest.
And I do appreciate your prayers for no one has all the answers. If I am delusional, I trust that God will lead me into all truth. For He will accomplish what He has begun in me. I believe that will all my heart.
Another reason why I didn't go into answering your post is that we were getting into a scripture battle which I believe is fruitless. If two are not in agreement.......well you know the rest. There's a connection that gets derailed when words and "being right" become more important than the Savior which bought us with His blood.
However, I know that I'll be back again after I retreat into His love- hiding in the shadow of His wings - waiting for the healing that WILL come through HIS love.
Reading the "love chapter" in Corinthians helps me to remember how HE loves. Love never fails. He has written that as a banner across my heart. This is my REALITY. This is my REAL God, sis. Not some dead words on a page - a list of do's and don'ts. No, He's the Living Word in action NOW in my life.
So you see we are coming from different views.
I pray abundant blessings to you in Christ Jesus, our Lord. \o/
In His Love, GH