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NASB | Malachi 2:16 "For I hate divorce," says the LORD, the God of Israel, "and him who covers his garment with wrong," says the LORD of hosts. "So take heed to your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Malachi 2:16 "For I hate divorce," says the LORD, the God of Israel, "and him who covers his garment with wrong and violence," says the LORD of hosts. "Therefore keep watch on your spirit, so that you do not deal treacherously [with your wife]." |
Subject: Trying to understand: |
Bible Note: Part 1: No, I am not saying that you should divorce. Please read my posting to you on 2/22/02 after I read a little more on your situation. Your situation is not an easy situation with a quick fix. You said you don't Love her anymore like you did, and that She is very disinterested basically in the Marriage, so it is apparant that there are no real bonds of love there anymore, however...you need to be careful when an entire family with children is involved. It would be much easier if it were just the 2 of you, but it isn't. It sounds like there are a lot of high emotions involved here, which can only make the situation worse. I personally have found it much harder to come to any solid conclusions when my emotions are high, and my mind is confused. Which, the mind does become confused when the emotions are that way. The best thing I can suggest is 1st and foremost, Please Humble yourself before our Heavenly Father, as I am sure you have already....please contine to do so. Don't keep asking him to necessairly show you what to do right now, gather close to him, rest in his presence, ask for his peace, ask for a calm, still, strong mind and emotions so that you can be better instructed by God when the time comes for him to instruct you. As he will, trust me on this one. After many years myself of personally only trusting God in my life when things are going the way I want them to, and then when they are not, I take control of my life again....I have learned, and am still learning, that he knows best, even when we don't feel that he does. He does have a plan for you, he will work this out for the good of all...not just you. We must be very careful not to take everything in our complete control in our lives just becasue we want it fixed right now, right away. It's easy to do that, but definatly not always best. God does know and does care about how much you are hurting right now. We can only think about our lives maybe 10 steps ahead, he can see it 20, 30 even 40 steps ahead of us. Oftentimes when we are going through times in our lives when it is not so ideal to us,it is to him. He uses that time in our life to refine us, to teach us, to grow us up in his Love and brings us to a closer relationship to him as well as a better undertanding. As Charles Stanley (In Touch Ministries) said "If we were to get all of our answers to all of our problems immediately, the relationship with Christ would be over, right there and then". What would be the point of that? We need Christ in our lives, he is our comforter and our guide. He wants us to depens upon him more, to trust him more, to have a close relationship with him, but if it were all too easy, there would be no appreciation there. |