Marriage and Divorce Healing and Reconcilation
My friend LA Marzulli has a great mini-sermon about taking seriously a critical element of the Christian life – putting the full armor of God. We are living in a fallen world, full of all kinds of influences and attacks, physical, emotional, and spiritual. Keeping Ephesians 6:13-17 in mind everyday is critical, and having peace in the daily chaos is possible!
Listen to this brief audio- LA Marzulli on putting on the full armor of God (mp3 – 4 min.)
What does your unanswered prayer have to do with a space mission? The recent successful landing of JPL’s Curiosity mission on Mars demonstrated a similar principal in the Bible- success can already have happened even though we are still waiting for it. Confused? Read on . .
Since it takes radio waves 14 minutes to reach Earth from Mars right now, the Mars mission control at JPL in Pasadena received word of a successful landing long after the events had already happened. While the scientific world sat on the edge of its collective seats, and waited as each bit of telemetry and data trickled in, on Mars the probe had landed many minutes earlier, guided automatically to its landing.
We too have a limited view in our lives of the events we are praying for. It seems to us we are waiting forever for our prayers to be answered, but in God’s eternal time, he already sees the end. To our earth-bound minds, it seems like the answer to our prayer is a long time off. But God’s way will happen; you can be sure. Trust Him to unravel your prayer in His time.
I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say: My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please. Isaiah 46:10
We have to do a lot of waiting in this life. We wait for loved ones to come to the Lord. We wait for reconciliation. We wait for God to improve us. This waiting is is part of God’s way to mature us:
“When you are going to play with me?” “Not yet. Not until I finish this report.” Fifteen seconds later the child asks the same question, this time with a tone of voice that can drive you mad. But the child is in us all. We too look forward to the day when we have learned perseverance before the Lord. It is the older wise man or woman who can take the many hassles of life in stride, without grumbling and complaining, with contentment rather than resignation. God has chosen to inject his character of perseverance and patient waiting into everyday, earthly life. We are patiently waiting for the Lord’s coming. Creation itself is patiently waiting for the time when it will be liberated from bondage (Rom. 8:22).
Welch, Edward T. (2006-11-01). Depression: A Stubborn Darkness (p. 94). New Growth Press. Kindle Edition.
