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Bible Question: BELIEVE IT OR NOT, I CONSIDER MYSELF A BORN-AGAIN CHRISTIAN EVEN THOUGH I HAVE DONE THE UNTHINKABLE. HERE IS MY STORY AND MY QUESTION...MY EX-HUSBAND PROMISED ME CHILDREN AND AFTER 12 1/2 YEARS, HE STILL WOULDN'T EVEN TALK ABOUT IT. HE WAS MISERABLE ALL THE TIME, DIDN'T LIKE ANY OF MY FAMILY MEMBERS, MADE FUN OF ME, AND WE ONLY HAD SEXUAL RELATIONS 4 TIMES IN 1O YEARS. I EVENTUALLY FELT RESENTMENT TOWARDS MY HUSBAND AND ALL THE PRAYERS I MADE DIDN'T SEEM TO FIX ANYTHING. EVENTUALLY I LEFT MY HUSBAND. THEN, I SLEPT WITH ANOTHER MAN WHO I HAVE BEEN FRIENDS WITH FOR ABOUT 5 YEARS. HE WAS ALSO GETTING DIVORCED. BOTH OF OUR SPOUSES KNEW ABOUT THE DIVORCE PROCEEDINGS AND BOTH OF US HAD MOVED OUT. WE EVENTUALLY SLEPT TOGETHER. HE AND I GOT MARRIED. HE IS A MORMON. I KNOW I PURPOSELY CHOSE TO DISOBEY GOD...I GOT DIVORCED, SLEPT WITH SOMEONE BEFORE MARRIAGE AND THEN MARRIED SOMEONE TO WHOM I AM UNEQUALLY YOLKED. I'M SORRY I DISOBEYED GOD AND KNOW I SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE THESE THINGS. HOWEVER, I DO DEEPLY LOVE MY HUSBAND. NOW MY BROTHER WON'T ALLOW MY HUSBAND TO ANY FAMILY FUNCTIONS. I UNDERSTAND THAT MY BROTHER IS UPSET, I THINK HE SHOULD BE THIS WAY. MY HUSBAND DOES GO TO MY CHURCH AND I'M TRYING DESPERATELY TO WITNESS TO HIM. ANYWAY, IS IT WRONG FOR ME TO EXPECT MY BROTHER TO TREAT HIM LIKE FAMILY? ALSO, MY HUSBAND NEVER TALKS ABOUT HIS BELIEFS UNLESS SOMEONE ASKS HIM, SO HE WOULDN'T TRY TO "CONVERT" ANY OF MY FAMILY MEMEBERS OR ME. IS THERE ANY HOPE OF A FUTURE FOR MY HUSBAND WITH MY BROTHER AND HIS FAMILY? |
Bible Answer: I really can't answer your question. But I'll just say what I want to say. First, may God keep blessing you. I'm a young person and I know sin, so I have learned to not judge people who sin for they do what they do not want to do. I'm learning these days that God is true, not a lie. He is a God of all times but for us a God of the moment. What does this mean? There is a lot of work to be done. I know that my spirit sences a good revolution for the christian people and there is no time to let the devil put in our minds thoughts of guiltness. If we fall, let's not stay down, let's get up. God is there sitting waiting to say: "See I told you so, now you have to suffer the consequences and the guilt of your sin." Tes, I know that sin we commit is concequences that we suffer, but God is there saying, "Come on let's keep going." I have learned that God doesn't work like that. I have learned that God does not think like we do. Don't ever let anything take away your joy. New they are each day and big is His fidelity (in my words). Get up and who ever judges you don't listen to them. Did you not know that there can be a an unequal yolk even with the person from your religon and from your church? It is so. Mybe this first man was even a more unequal yoke than this mormon. If he is how you say, for I am not there to hear both side of the story. But I trust you need the answer for you have wanted to ask for it. The first christians practiced what most humanist practice or would like to practice. They practiced socialism. Selling all they have and being equal. Loved one another. Your family should remember their roots. I can't judge them for I know them not, but if they humblely treat people, others will see that they have the truth, if they are christians. I believe that you marry one person for life. Your first husband is you husband, but if he is how you said, you had the right to leave him, he did not deserve you. This second one, if already married, do your best to open his eyes. Believe in the power of God I ask you. Be humble and summisive but do not be taken as a fool. The man is the head of the house not the whole body. Both do things not just one. |