Tomorrow in church, there’s going to be a sharing time during the service about what God has been doing in our lives. I suggested we have more times of sharing to help our small church grow closer together and identify more with each other’s burdens. Pastor Lou has been preaching on God’s encouragement for the weak church, and it is all of God that we continue to seek Him and His work in our lives.
If you’ve ever made it through rough times in your life and have no idea how you did it, then perhaps you can understand how hard it is to put in to words. God sustains us and provides for us. Only by trusting Him can we continue on through overwhelming obstacles.
I’ve been married to my wife Melody for five years now and we have two beautiful children, Naomi and Lydia. Most couples would not have made it to the five year point because of all the financial difficulties and sacrifices we’ve endured. While I give the ultimate credit to God, my wife is a special person who held things together on her shear will and belief that things will get better. I can’t ask for a better wife, and while progress has been much slower than she would have liked, things are getting much better and we now have some direction in our lives.
It is also a credit to our families who raised us with such a strong support that we continue to press on towards the goal of giving glory to God. Both my wife and I were raised in the church. Her dad is a lay minister and runs a handyman business. My dad is an elder in the OPC (as mentioned previously). Both our parents are still happily (mostly) married. Our parents set before us godly role models with which to follow in raising our own children.
The source of trust in a marriage comes from knowing God. He showed us how to love one another in that He first loved us. Take time today to let your spouse know that you love them no matter what. Recommit yourselves to your marriages and to the God who sustains and fulfills our lives.
