Bible Question:
Mark, I am looking for answers and I am getting different answers to my question. My exwife was raised a Christian and lives a moral life but is not active in church. I was not a Christian when we married. I became a Christian while we were separated and fell in love with a divorced Christian woman in my new church. My exwife divorced me because after many years of trying to reconcile she could not trust that I would be faithful and wanted to control my friendships with women. Basically she told me that I could not have women friends and be married to her. That is just ridiculous and I will not live my life that way. I did not want to be repressed by my exwife and I enjoy my new church and new friends. My exwife does not fit my new life. She will not accept me as I am. She does not believe I am a Christian because I did not cut off all communication with women and come home to her. My exwife does not believe I repented or made ammends so she gave up on me and divorced me. Our divorce was very hostile and I do not believe we will ever have a relationship in the future. I try to be kind to her but she will not accept the changes in me. At the moment my exwife will not even talk to me. This Christian woman I have met is unlike anyone I have ever known. My new friends and church are unlike any group I have ever been a part of. It is difficult for me to believe that God would have me go back to the hostility of my exwife and walk away from the woman and friends that have supported me through the toughest part of my life. What is God's will? |
Bible Answer: Cutting loose the past. Luke 9:62 (what has happened is already gone) Truly Accepting the forgiveness of Jesus. Daniel 9:9 (forgiveness despite of rebellion) Acts 5:31 (gives repentance and forgiveness of sins) Acts 13:39 (forgiveness freely given) Being faithful and sinning no more. John 5:14 (sin no more) John 8:11 (no condemnation) Obeying the words of Jesus. Matthew 5:31-32 (divorced woman) |