With the arrival of the Covid-19, the church has had to close its doors, I mean the physical temples, how should people of faith respond in this time of staying at home?It is Isaiah 26:20, who in his text says the following: Go, my people, enter your house and close the doors behind you. Hide a little, until the Lord's anger passes.One of the things that I have thought about what is happening is that God brings the quarries back, and those quarries are our homes, the churches should start by establishing a restoration between us and the family, it is time for reconciliation whatever whatever has happened.
"Let us draw near to Him, Living Stone, unmade of men, but for God chosen and precious. As Living Stones they are built as a Spiritual House and Holy Priesthood, to offer acceptable sacrifices to God through Jesus Christ" (1 Peter 2: 4-5).
Jesus is the cornerstone, and he wants us to be those living stones that build the spiritual house, the church that he awaits, we are in the last times and in our privacy we must patiently learn the transformation that God wants for this time.Patience is a very demanding virtue that has been lost in modernity, with our commitment to progress. We have a social order based on impatience.
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It is not about perfection, it is about finding ourselves at this time and we can only do it through Jesus, a few days ago I saw a program of a pastor who has a ministry of marriage restoration and in that program she judged another for the fact that he divorced, at that moment the revelation came to me, God is not on the side of hypocrisy or appearances but of the heart that recognizes him despite the mistakes, and I had two reported cases of families and my question was, which of these two does God see with pleasure?
Case 1: A couple who divorced with a son, the mother a Christian woman, relates that she had very hard moments in her relationship, she was verbally and physically abused, the children were small at the time, she suffered a lot but made a decision because She did not want her children to see the bad example that they had as a family, they would surely grow with that brand from day to day, she fought for years to restore that relationship but her life was no longer at risk, when she separated from this relationship I seek more of God, he allowed God to heal that wounded heart for so many years, and he forgave and asked for forgiveness from his daughter's father for everything he lived, from that moment he began to teach his daughter the good things of her father, and to have a good relationship even if they were no longer husbands, over the years this girl grew up with a different spirit that erased the sadness of the first years, sure that she is happy to see her parents in a healthy relationship sharing moments together.
Case 2: A dysfunctional family living under the same roof and maintaining a relationship of bad practices and lack of love, their children grew up marked by the unhappiness of seeing their parents hurt themselves through gestures and words, but they did not make a decision because Legalism, what they would say and religion did not allow it, never sought to resolve their differences and led their children to unhappiness in their childhood, making them lose their innocence before adversity, years later they obtained an insecure woman, a son in alcohol and drugs.Parents who hate each other because they never got a middle ground for forgiveness.
The idea in the heart of God is that families stay together, but living in his word, with love and forgiveness, there are many people who preach about divorce in a radical way, God did not constitute the family to suffer, he created them with purpose, and each of us will give an account to God for our children, the education and example they received, we must advocate for the restitution and restoration of homes, as long as they are sincere, and each one does his part to fulfill his purpose, God sees is the heart not appearances.
Each case and circumstance is different, because I discovered that the salvation is individual and we can pray for the other person but we cannot force them to anything, we have to learn that whatever our decision God must always be first, we must heal the hearts of his toughness and return to first love.
I do not support couples divorcing, but neither do I judge those who do, in these two previous examples I am sure that God looks with pleasure on the heart of the first case than the second, despite the fact that in the first there was a physical breakdown And my theory about it is that many Christians live tied and unhappy lives because they cannot divorce but in their hearts they have already done so because they are not united to that person in a single spirit. Jesus hates divorce but also hypocrisy, the Pharisees, accusers and they live false lives.
It is a virtue for those who carry out this ministry of reconciliation, it is good to preach to strengthen families, epro do it from the wrong side, not from the signaling, because God says that what he has united does not separate man, what he has said well he unites, sanson is a clear example of relationships that God does not unite and that lead him to death, Delilah was a Philistine and although it was not convenient to fall in love with a Philistine, sanson ignored it and that decision led him to lose his view.
Each life is unique, but we are sas stone that we must return to the portfolio to be molded again, families support each other, love each other but from the heart, with lives that please the Lord only thus they will have fulfilled the mission that the Lord left us.
If you want a biblical basis on this subject I leave you this verse, God knows that there are people who will live in love, and he mentions it in this passage ...
Isaiah 54 King James Version (RVR1960)
Jehovah's Eternal Love for Israel
54 Rejoice, oh barren, the one who did not give birth; it raises song and it shouts of joy, the one that never was in childbirth; for more are the children of the forsaken than of the married, saith Jehovah.
2 Wide the place of your tent, and the curtains of your rooms be extended; don't be scarce; lengthen your ropes, and strengthen your stakes.
3 Because you will extend to the right hand and to the left hand; and your descendants will inherit nations, and will inhabit the devastated cities.
4 Fear not, for you will not be confused; and do not be ashamed, because you will not be insulted, but you will forget the shame of your youth, and of the affront of your widowhood you will have no more memory.
5 For your husband is your Maker; Jehovah of armies is his name; and your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; God of all earth will be called.
6 For the Lord has called you as an abandoned and sad woman of spirit, and as the wife of youth who is disowned, said your God.
7 For a brief moment I abandoned you, but I will gather you with great mercies.
God is our happiness and our freedom, the love that covers a multitude of mistakes, does not allow anyone to point it out and question his identity as a son, keep a clean heart before God and he will honor you.
WITH LOTS OF LOVE!
MOTHER OF THE CROWDS
I have never looked at this period as a part of God's plan to reunite some broken family. Thanks for the eye opening. I read the two cases and sometimes, one may be tempted to conclude that divorce is better but in all cases, it's wiser we choose the way of the Lord and I know he always speak to His children and show them way out.
I choose God over everything, no matter what.
Faith over fear
It is necessary that we keep a clean heart before God. God sees the heart
The Lord sees our heart and knows our greatest desires, putting up a face may work on human but not with God, worship him in truth and in spirit