Marriages are dropping like flies...
I don't know how to start this sentence other than by saying, "Marriages are dropping like flies right now."
I'm serious. I am getting texts, emails, messages, and having conversations with people that are revealing the onslaught of relentless attack on marriages in our church. Pornography, incest, infidelity, "not in love anymore", cold turkey you-gotta-be-out-of-the-house-in-two-weeks cold-cock up side the head on a random morning in March. I'm not kidding...I'm not sure there has been a day this week where I haven't heard of another marriage either on the rocks or filing for divorce. Some of the reasons are valid and traumatic, many of them are just feelings and selfishness and seduction and misguided desire. Consumers that aren't happy with the product wanting their money back.
I sit here this morning just reeling trying to seek God on how to address this. How do you check the plague and stave off the Enemy. There are weeks like this that it just feels like Satan is winning, no matter that I know he's going to loss in the end...he's kicking butt now. He's destroying lives by the droves now. He's wrecking homes today. Don't give me "his doom is sure" and "in the end he will burn in the lake of fire"...that does nothing to stop the hell on earth he is unleashing today. What do we do about the times we live in today, not the end times. This time and place, these marriages and homes. This is my grave concern presently.
There are moments when I feel like I need to just can everything and "go off" on a weekend. Just flat out flip out and go beast mode on everybody in our church. I want to shout down sin and sinners. I want to lift up right and righteousness. I want to call people to repentance without shaming them with guilt and condemnation. I want to fight for people's heart without scaring away those who are new to the family of God. Anyone that says it's and easy decision, isn't thinking from all sides...they are just thinking about their side. But I'm admitting that somewhere in the middle of righteous anger and the wrath of man...there has to be a place where a pastor can stand squarely and call down Holy Spirit fire to consume all that is not of God and to set ablaze the hearts of man to live for the glory of God instead of their own selfish desires.
Today, I'm just aching for broken hearts, broken marriages, broken homes. I'm sick and tired of sitting on the sidelines and watching the enemy intercept the ball and take it into the end zone for another touchdown. I want to put some points on the board, darn it! I want to intercept the ball from him and score some points. I want to win! I want victory for myself, for others, for the kingdom!
That's all I have to say today...
I'm serious. I am getting texts, emails, messages, and having conversations with people that are revealing the onslaught of relentless attack on marriages in our church. Pornography, incest, infidelity, "not in love anymore", cold turkey you-gotta-be-out-of-the-house-in-two-weeks cold-cock up side the head on a random morning in March. I'm not kidding...I'm not sure there has been a day this week where I haven't heard of another marriage either on the rocks or filing for divorce. Some of the reasons are valid and traumatic, many of them are just feelings and selfishness and seduction and misguided desire. Consumers that aren't happy with the product wanting their money back.
I sit here this morning just reeling trying to seek God on how to address this. How do you check the plague and stave off the Enemy. There are weeks like this that it just feels like Satan is winning, no matter that I know he's going to loss in the end...he's kicking butt now. He's destroying lives by the droves now. He's wrecking homes today. Don't give me "his doom is sure" and "in the end he will burn in the lake of fire"...that does nothing to stop the hell on earth he is unleashing today. What do we do about the times we live in today, not the end times. This time and place, these marriages and homes. This is my grave concern presently.
There are moments when I feel like I need to just can everything and "go off" on a weekend. Just flat out flip out and go beast mode on everybody in our church. I want to shout down sin and sinners. I want to lift up right and righteousness. I want to call people to repentance without shaming them with guilt and condemnation. I want to fight for people's heart without scaring away those who are new to the family of God. Anyone that says it's and easy decision, isn't thinking from all sides...they are just thinking about their side. But I'm admitting that somewhere in the middle of righteous anger and the wrath of man...there has to be a place where a pastor can stand squarely and call down Holy Spirit fire to consume all that is not of God and to set ablaze the hearts of man to live for the glory of God instead of their own selfish desires.
Today, I'm just aching for broken hearts, broken marriages, broken homes. I'm sick and tired of sitting on the sidelines and watching the enemy intercept the ball and take it into the end zone for another touchdown. I want to put some points on the board, darn it! I want to intercept the ball from him and score some points. I want to win! I want victory for myself, for others, for the kingdom!
That's all I have to say today...
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