Going through the last twenty days of this dare has been a roller coaster ride!. Within the last three weeks, I was able to do that which I thought I couldn't! I must say I am beginning to have a better understanding of myself, my husband and my marriage. Thanks to the last 20 days, I am reaping benefits as early as now and I never realized how much was missing until I began appreciating and investing on my marriage. But more than anything, I am deeply moved as I realized how having a Christ-centered partnership can do beyond amazing things in me, with me and through me. Of all the wonderful things I have realized, the most important thing was Jesus loved me with a depth, breadth and length I cannot fathom and none can equal. He died to take my place. I drown in His sea of grace. And receiving such profound, unfathomable, amazing love and grace humbles me. This humility brings me to my knees to accept my iniquities against my husband, to realize the injuries I have caused in my marriage, to repent and to live out the rest of my days investing, nurturing and protecting my marriage as I have never done before.
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Lord, thank you for pursuing me, for seeking me and saving me. You stripped me of my sins, sent Your son to bleed and die, so to that I, a sinner, may be forgiven and live through Him. I never fully understood how You can make a sacrifice like this for a sinner like me and I know I never earned it, but it is with Your grace that I am saved. Thank You, Father for this gift of salvation. It took me a very long time to ask but You were patient and just so certain that I will come back to You. And now that I have, You gave it fully and now I am overwhelmed with gratitude that because of Your son Jesus Christ, I am able to love in ways I never knew I am capable of. Thank you for teaching me to love beyond imperfections and flaws and making me an instrument to meet the needs of my husband, children and my loved ones. Thank your for preparing me to live this dare. Now that I know and have experienced that true love can only be found in Christ, I am never letting go. I look forward to more loving days with You. Amen.
While we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. -- Romans 5:6
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Lord, thank you for pursuing me, for seeking me and saving me. You stripped me of my sins, sent Your son to bleed and die, so to that I, a sinner, may be forgiven and live through Him. I never fully understood how You can make a sacrifice like this for a sinner like me and I know I never earned it, but it is with Your grace that I am saved. Thank You, Father for this gift of salvation. It took me a very long time to ask but You were patient and just so certain that I will come back to You. And now that I have, You gave it fully and now I am overwhelmed with gratitude that because of Your son Jesus Christ, I am able to love in ways I never knew I am capable of. Thank you for teaching me to love beyond imperfections and flaws and making me an instrument to meet the needs of my husband, children and my loved ones. Thank your for preparing me to live this dare. Now that I know and have experienced that true love can only be found in Christ, I am never letting go. I look forward to more loving days with You. Amen.
While we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. -- Romans 5:6