The Marriage
Circle
“Decide
Today”
Eph 4:17-18
“This I say
therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other
Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, having the understanding darkened,
being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them,
because of the blindness of their heart;”
As I thought
upon the newsletter’s theme for this month, the song we used to sing at my old
church came to mind; “Where are you in
Christ? Where are you in Christ?” I have to ask, where are you in Christ?
Your marriage doesn’t have to be in “trouble” to do a self-examination but you
can always make it better by doing one. Decide today to take your marriage to
another level.
Reading
Ephesians chapter four (and I suggest reading it all) reminded me of how I can
apply these teachings to my own marriage. In verses one through six, I realized
I was called (as we all are as wives) to walk worthy of the invocation of being
a good wife to our husbands. I was called to Douglas Lapsley…LAWD have mercy
and what a wonderful calling it is!!! Praise Jesus! Sorry, I had to take a
praise break. You are called to yours, whether he is saved or not, whether he
does everything right or not, or whether he has hurt you or not. Let’s be real
for a moment anyway, all of us have hurt somebody and somebodies more than once
in our lives. Let’s stop hanging onto the song, “He hurt me. He did this. He did that,” because so have you. You
have spoken words that cut him to his bone and in the natural when a bone is broken
sometimes it never heals the way it’s supposed to.
When we hurt God, He doesn’t
throw us away or sings the song we sing. I can’t even remember a time AT ALL
that God brought back up something I did wrong and kept rehearsing how it hurt
Him. He doesn’t even speak of it. That’s the kind of God we serve! We should
serve our husbands in that same way. Our relationship with Jesus Christ (the
Anointed One) should be so sound and secure in Him that we don’t rehearse with
our husband how they hurt us. It just should not be. If it’s something that you
have to keep rehearsing, then again I ask, “Where are you in Christ?”
Today, we
have a choice to make and that is to decide to no longer walk as others walk in
the vanity of their mind, a darkened understanding, being alienated from God
through ignorance because of the blindness of their hearts concerning their
marriage. No, YOU be renewed in the spirit of your mind and put on the new man
in your marriage. You can do this by putting away: lying, bitterness, wrath, anger,
clamor, malice and evil speaking, speak the truth (in love), be angry but do
not sin, don’t give place to the devil, let no corrupt communication proceed
out of your mouth, don’t grieve the Holy Spirit, be kind to him, tenderhearted,
forgiving, even as God for Christ’s sake has forgiven you (Eph 4:23-32).
Be blessed
and cause your marriage to ever increase in Christ!
-
Keisha
Lapsley
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