Sweet wife who feels alone, let me offer you some very practical hope. ![]() More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. Whether you’re experiencing a true marital crisis or just struggling through the loneliness that often follows even a brief disagreement, you have a choice to make.Īs a follower of Christ, filled by the Holy Spirit and fully equipped for every good work, you have the power to choose! He specializes in crafting believable lies meant to lead us away from God’s truth one step of doubt at a time. No marriage is perfect – how can the union of two flawed sinners possibly be? The tactics Satan uses now are the same he used even as far back in the Garden of Eden – anything he can do to separate husband and wife from each other and from God. ![]() ![]() Would trusting in God’s providence and protection keep you secure?.Would believing that He has your best interest at heart give you hope when all hope seems lost?.Would believing that God isn’t finished working in your or in your marriage give you strength to persevere?.How might your perspective change if you quit believing the Enemy’s lies and began instead to believe God’s truth? The God of the universe, your Creator, is with you.Īnd along with Him, you have thousands of sisters-in-Christ who are standing ground, fighting for their marriages, too. My friend, if you are a lonely wife who is hesitant to let anyone in, know that the truth is you are far from alone! When women begin to realize that others out there have lived through and survived (or even thrived) through marriages that fell apart, they see that with God anything is possible. You see, friend, if he can convince you to hide your pain and suffering, to keep your mouth shut, he can keep you from the hope and joy you are desperately searching for! You just need to try harder to be the perfect wife, and then your husband will love you like you want.Īnd perhaps worst of all he puts the final nail in the coffin of our hope – If you tell anyone else, they’ll know what a failure you are, and your husband’s reputation will be ruined. It’s because you lack faith – that’s why your marriage is struggling. With his persistent voice, he whispers lies like: I’m convinced it is one of Satan’s greatest weapons against Christian marriages today. They, too, feel alone in their marriage struggles. ![]() Yet I often hear other women confessing that same struggle. Sometimes other women ask me what I found most helpful during the dark years of our marriage, and I can honestly say that when I started to realize how NOT alone I was, I began to take heart! My natural tendency in times like these is to hunker down, hole up, hide away – that’s probably true for any introvert, but I now recognize that this tendency to retreat often leads me to be alone with my thoughts and worries – a dangerous place for any struggling wife to be, introvert or not. Married life had been less than stellar, and I was weary of carrying on the “good fight.”Īdd to that fact the isolation that often accompanies marriage problems (because after all, it’s embarrassing to admit you’re struggling, right?), and the loneliness seemed unbearable. As the words left my mouth, the weight of them nearly crushed me.
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