My point about that was that we will have many things come and test our hearts in trials if we still respect and assume the best about God despite what we see, and that’s where being equipped with the armor and truth is so important. Also exhorting and strengthening because at times it’s truly a battle we all face and we aren’t meant to fight it alone. We are meant to fight it together in unity, and I invite you all to do a word study on exhorting and how it’s commanded of us but the church doesn’t do it. Truly giving the strength in spirit we are called to give.
Sharing in the sufferings
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I shared this research on social media the other day and I’m sharing it with you the watchman. Prophesies are happening.
God shows us how he uses marriage as a parable for us to understand him and the love he wants from us
He wants us to “cleave” unto him as he commands a man to leave his parents and cleave to his wife. All over scripture he uses marriage as an example for us and through understanding how he feels and is treated in his union with us, we share in his sufferings and are brought to understanding.
He calls us his bride
And he divorces his first bride Israel
And invites us all to the wedding
We wait on the groomsmen
These are the parables given by Jesus
God says he wants to be in all our thoughts. He wants to be always considered in all we do, as we want in marriage. This is the cleaving. When we love someone everything they do affects us. We are sharing one life, and deeply care if their needs are our needs and their sorrow our sorrow, their joy our joy.
He feels with us in our afflictions and we should also feel with him in his. Seek his heart and face.
He wants to be our escape, our refuge, our place of rest. Our trust, our hope, our comfort. This is to cleave. He wants us to delight in him and him in us.
during tribulations this gets tested and much comes against our minds and hearts and souls. We are tempted as the Israelites after being delivered from slavery and witnessing many miracles they still didn’t give God the credit but the golden calf, they didn’t trust God who was delivering them to a good place, they accused God of leading them to their deaths but he was going to defeat the armies in the land for them, he was angry that they didn’t see his love and who he is and doubted his character, forgot who he is. I think this is why we are given the mystery in marriage: man is to love his wife and woman is to respect her husband. Respect in our language doesn’t really paint the full picture of what it is. To respect biblically is to believe in someone’s good character. This is something we cannot and should not do for all men. Not to be a respecter of persons but to honor all men. Honor is outward. Respect is inward- sometimes a word for it is to cover. To cover transgressions, and assume the best despite what we see or understand. A good example of respecting this way in action: say my fiance offends me with something he has said, I choose not to be offended covering this transgression with the many good things he has said and done. Giving the grace I myself sometimes need rather than rushing to judgement. Anyway I wanted to share what I’ve been learning. Hope this helps someone else.