Subject: Who decides which marriages God honors? |
Bible Note: Dear Mainey : As over the years on this forum I've surveyed the great number of personal problems that have been presented on these pages, many of them break my heart and all of them make me want to reach out and help. But, alas, a vehicle such as this forum is not suited for personal counselling, even if I were a professional couselor of some sort, which I am not. So when we urge inquirers to seek counsel from their pastors or other qualified persons, we are not giving them a quick brush off to get rid of them! I don't believe any of our regular users of SBF would ever do that. ...... Mainey, may I please urge you (and your wife, if she is willing) to seek personal counsel within your community? Problems of this sort don't usually solve themselves but often have a way of hanging on. They need to be worked out and not left alone to grow and fester. ..... You asked what would Jesus do? Well, sir, I don't know. I happen not to like the WWJD questions, because they are more likely to lead us into speculation than to provide solid guidance from the word of God. For example, you ask what would Jesus do if He were in your situation. Well, to begin with, Jesus never married. So how can anyone answer that question without engaging in some highly speculative and purely abstract guesses? The better question, it seems to me, would be, "What did Jesus teach?" and, by extension, What does the entire word of God teach? -- for there is no contradiction between the the two. ...... God's grace to you, sir, and it is my prayer that you and your wife will find solution to your problem. --Hank |