it hurts but we're always better when we surrender and seek instead of resisting. If it was easy, it wouldn't be cherished.
Hi Prohet, thanks for the advice, however i am completely surrendered to the Lord and i am not resisting at all.
here's the difference in the typical drunk and my husband.
My husband goes to church every Sunday, is involved in the various ministries at the church, he's also a trustee and he knows all about the Lord.
He can quote scriptures left and right. He teaches sunday school to 5th graders
At home though, he is trying to destroy his family and it seems like he is completely oblivious to the pain he's caused the kids!
he has a form of godliness but denies it's power.
The dangerous side to the whole tragedy is he is running from God, and in complete rebellion and is trying to take as many people down with him as possible!
Jesus had similar people that He was involved with (The Pharisees and the Saduccees)
Piano-
i believe my husband also falls under Psalm 52.
I know the power of the Lord is stronger than anything else there is and He could give my husband the
"Saul to Paul" experience, however i believe the Lord will not force a person to follow Him.
The Lord is a gentleman and He wants us each to CHOOSE Him for ourselves.
My husband is choosing (of his own free will) to deny the power of the Lord in his life. he is pushing his family and his God away, and not only that he is trying to persuade the church to also do the same!
This has nothing to do with how Big our God is. This has to do with outright defiance and rebellion.
i have said this before and i'll say it again- IT is better to obey God than man.
there was a well meaning Christian who asked me once before why i was not submitting to my husband and this was my reply:
if my husband were to ask me to go into the kitchen, get a knife and come and stab my son in the chest is it right for me to obey my husband or should I instead obey God who says You shall not kill?
too often women get into this trap of believing they have to obey every command given by their husbands even when it's wrong!
The Lord has already given me this warning of obeying some of my husbands commands.
sorry to ramble on, it's just there has to be a shaking up of what used to be and what is now happening.
there has to be an awakening to this truth: The Lord did not come to bring peace but He came to bring a sword.
(ref: Matthew 10:34 "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.)
(and also Luke 12:51 Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.)
Please forgive me if i have offended anyone or weakened anyone's faith,
i just believe that a person's fate is determined by the choice they make in regards to God
and in my situation, i believe my husband has chosen darkness rather than light because he loves the darkness (because his deeds are evil)
I'll just close my post with this scripture:
"Has not the Potter [God] power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto DISHONOUR?" (Rom. 9:21).
some people are actually made for dishonour. for the day of destruction