Understanding God's Word is the ultimate expression of what life really is. As Pastor Peter often say, it is the manual of life. The principles and words written therein are God's designs, His promises and blessings; ideals, instructions and guidance. If we aren't careful and aren't serious about our relationship with the Lord, or even worse having no relationship with Him at all, to begin with--the world around us, the society and culture surrounding us will lure us farther and farther away from God's truth. It will teach us false concepts and ideas about God, freedom, identity, sex and marriage. And we are sure to belief such lies--lies that will be passed on to our children and to our children's children and shall become our standards. As someone who was entrapped by the snare of the enemy, I say this with full conviction--the lies have to stop and godliness has to begin. In our lives, here and now. The best for us are never the ones that are dictated by the world but the ones that God promised in the Scriptures. What we must applaud, encourage and celebrate in our spouses and even in our children must be those that are good, holy, righteous, true, pure and just. Not the standards of the world but God's. It is when we honor God in the small and big things that we can experience His best for us--a marriage and a life that is lived in God's abundance.
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Lord, my life in the past has been ruled by worldly things. I became too consumed by my thirst for those that are earthly. I failed to realize that these ill desires of my heart have caused me to risk and destroy the most important relationships I have. I was too blind to discern that the very things I demanded, expected and hungered for -- appreciation and attention -- were exactly temptations of evil luring me into sin. I held on to the wrong ideas of love, thinking that the things that have become popular in our world, are right and natural. I allowed love myths to lead me to a maze of further discontent and despair and have caused me to make grave mistakes. I am sorry, Father for allowing the dictates of culture and of this temporal world, to rule over my heart and my happiness. Only You have the power to convict me and lead me away further from this life of perversity. I can never thank You enough that Your wonderful work to change me has begun and the life You have designed for me is slowly but surely unfolding. You have shown me that true love seeks, grows, trusts and obeys in You and Your word. I know Father that With You as the center of my family, we shall live a life of fullness and godliness which will become a catalyst in enabling us to go through not just the difficult but the smooth times as one. It is my fervent prayer Father, that You help us turn our house into a house that inspires, a house that serves for Your glory, a house with an unbroken devotion to You our Savior. Amen.
Love does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth. -- 1 Corinthians 13:6
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Lord, my life in the past has been ruled by worldly things. I became too consumed by my thirst for those that are earthly. I failed to realize that these ill desires of my heart have caused me to risk and destroy the most important relationships I have. I was too blind to discern that the very things I demanded, expected and hungered for -- appreciation and attention -- were exactly temptations of evil luring me into sin. I held on to the wrong ideas of love, thinking that the things that have become popular in our world, are right and natural. I allowed love myths to lead me to a maze of further discontent and despair and have caused me to make grave mistakes. I am sorry, Father for allowing the dictates of culture and of this temporal world, to rule over my heart and my happiness. Only You have the power to convict me and lead me away further from this life of perversity. I can never thank You enough that Your wonderful work to change me has begun and the life You have designed for me is slowly but surely unfolding. You have shown me that true love seeks, grows, trusts and obeys in You and Your word. I know Father that With You as the center of my family, we shall live a life of fullness and godliness which will become a catalyst in enabling us to go through not just the difficult but the smooth times as one. It is my fervent prayer Father, that You help us turn our house into a house that inspires, a house that serves for Your glory, a house with an unbroken devotion to You our Savior. Amen.
Love does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth. -- 1 Corinthians 13:6