A Peace That Surpasses All Understanding

In my previous entry, I mentioned that my husband attended church after about 7 years and how I was so proud and hoped it meant he was closer to coming back to Christ.

This morning after we worked out, I asked him what he thought his gift was (the church message was about learning our divine gifts and how to apply them) …and the conversation turned into something I wasn’t expecting.

He said he didn’t think we were put on earth to praise Jesus or God, but to be good people. He said he knows there is a God, but that we are supposed to love people and once we die we go to a place that replicates how we lived our lives on earth.

My heart broke a little.

I told him that in the Bible, it quite literally says that we are supposed to glorify God in all that we do. He doesn’t believe that the disciples accurately wrote about what happened because they wrote about it many years after Jesus was here.

John 15:26-27 says:

26 “I will send you the Helper[a] from the Father. The Helper is the Spirit of truth[b] who comes from the Father. When he comes, he will tell about me. 27 And you will tell people about me too, because you have been with me from the beginning.

He doesn’t understand…or chooses not to understand…that the Holy Spirit gave them understanding and the memory and the means to write what they saw/experienced. Jesus Himself said that he was sent down to bring the glory to God. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life…no one gets to the Father except through Him.

It hurts that he is so stubborn that he is creating his own version of God in his mind, and not based on the truth that is the Bible.

However, as God does, the answer to my situation is in the Bible.

1 Corinthians 7:12-16 says:

12 To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If any brother has a wife who is not a believer and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her. 13 And if a woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him. 14 For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy. 15 (But if the husband or wife who isn’t a believer insists on leaving, let them go. In such cases the believing husband or wife[e] is no longer bound to the other, for God has called you[f] to live in peace.) 16 Don’t you wives realize that your husbands might be saved because of you? And don’t you husbands realize that your wives might be saved because of you?

So. Although what he believes is entirely incorrect…I cannot do anything but pray that he encounters Jesus and the Holy Spirit and is brought to his knees with prayer and repentance.

My hope is that he will be lead/inspired to be saved because of me, like Paul writes. I pray that my life bears the fruit talked about in the Bible, so much that it makes him want to discover his own relationship with Jesus.

Jesus is coming back soon, and I want to be found faithful. The only thing I know to be true in this life is that Jesus loves us, died for us, was resurrected, and the only reason we have a chance is because His blood covers us. When God looks at us, he sees his son.

Back when my husband and I were dating, we actually broke up for a bit because he made a statement about “whatever higher power is up there,” and that wasn’t good enough for me. He eventually admitted to saying that because he was trying to get a reaction out of me and that he does believe in God, and that was good enough for me. At that time, I wasn’t fully in my word or living how I should have been either, so I didn’t really think anything of it. The Bible mentions being equally yolked, but I wasn’t reading or praying like I should have.

I love my husband, and if we hadn’t gotten back together I wouldn’t have my son. No regrets there.

It did make me sad when he was talking this morning…but God. Any other time I would have been in my feelings and we would have had an argument, but today…I just felt peace.

Phillipians 4:7

7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

He cares for us y’all. He knew we would have trials in this life. This is mine. I’m not giving into the flesh and reacting. It is not my job to change my husband. It is my job to plant the seeds and pray over them. And boy, do I pray!!

In Jesus’ name, His will be done…not mine.

This world will pass away, God’s words never will.

If you’re going through this, you’re not alone. Keep the faith, keep praying over your significant other, and know that if it is in God’s will…IT WILL BE DONE!!

Amen.