GOING HOME
"The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the
clefts of the rocks and make your home on the heights, you who
say to yourself, 'Who can bring me down to the ground?' Though you
soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, from there
I will bring you down,' declares the Lord." Obadiah 1:3-4
There are some "bad words" in marriage ministry that you need to
learn to avoid. One of these is "should." No one except for Jesus
Christ can tell you precisely what you should or should not do.
Two other words are "looks" and "seems." Your prodigal is not
nearly as happy and their life is not nearly as content as it looks
to you. Do you know the innermost thoughts of the one you love? Only
the Lord does. So let's leave how things look and seem up to Him. Do
not base your stand for marriage restoration on how things look or
seem.
"O Lord, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit
and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern
my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord."
Psalm 139:1-4
Another no-no word for standers might be "say." Do not base your
stand on what you hear your prodigal say. Yes, the defense of the
one you love is to "say" they are happy, or to "say" that the other
person has you beat by a mile. They may "say" divorce is on the
way, and things may even go that way, but weekly we hear about
prodigals who cannot go through with the divorce they initiated. Do
you suppose that deep down they are thinking about going home?
My conclusion, based on personal experience, and fifteen years of
hearing from other prodigals, is that we all think about going home
over and over and over. Then why don't we? Because we have been
taken captive and our thoughts are not our own.
"Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts.
Let him turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to our
God, for he will freely pardon." Isaiah 55:7
Blessings,
Bob Steinkamp
Rejoice Marriage Ministries, Inc.®
clefts of the rocks and make your home on the heights, you who
say to yourself, 'Who can bring me down to the ground?' Though you
soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, from there
I will bring you down,' declares the Lord." Obadiah 1:3-4
There are some "bad words" in marriage ministry that you need to
learn to avoid. One of these is "should." No one except for Jesus
Christ can tell you precisely what you should or should not do.
Two other words are "looks" and "seems." Your prodigal is not
nearly as happy and their life is not nearly as content as it looks
to you. Do you know the innermost thoughts of the one you love? Only
the Lord does. So let's leave how things look and seem up to Him. Do
not base your stand for marriage restoration on how things look or
seem.
"O Lord, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit
and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern
my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord."
Psalm 139:1-4
Another no-no word for standers might be "say." Do not base your
stand on what you hear your prodigal say. Yes, the defense of the
one you love is to "say" they are happy, or to "say" that the other
person has you beat by a mile. They may "say" divorce is on the
way, and things may even go that way, but weekly we hear about
prodigals who cannot go through with the divorce they initiated. Do
you suppose that deep down they are thinking about going home?
My conclusion, based on personal experience, and fifteen years of
hearing from other prodigals, is that we all think about going home
over and over and over. Then why don't we? Because we have been
taken captive and our thoughts are not our own.
"Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts.
Let him turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to our
God, for he will freely pardon." Isaiah 55:7
Blessings,
Bob Steinkamp
Rejoice Marriage Ministries, Inc.®
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