'Chastes thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare from this crying'
Proverbs 19:18
The sanctity of marriage is truly challenged by the 'me first' values of this world. Yet, when a marriage falls apart, it is not just a divorcing of our intended life long partner, it could lead to us and our loved ones moving away from God.
Jesus used many parables to explain and teach his disciples. In my own limited understanding, I believe God do used the institution of marriage and family as a mirror to help us finite humans begin to understand His often unmitigated loving relationship with us.
.....and pray for us unto the Lord thy God........that the Lord thy God may shew us the way wherein we may walk, and the thing that we may do.'
Jeremiah 42:3
'There are times when we feel righteously justified to be angry with our better halves. At times, we even feel the need to punish them and for some, to write them off our lives.
With God, there are times, in our despair and disappointment, when God seems unfair or nonchalant about our sufferings or unfulfilled desires, that not having Him in our lives, seemed a tempting enough option.
Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee.'
Matthew 8:13
What about our children?? Often enough, despite our love and good intentions, they are not grateful, and they display values sharply deviant to what we teach them.
As parents, we are subjected to the heartache of disappointments from such recalcitrant behaviour, and we spent many sleepless nights spiced with a heavy dose of headaches wondering about what makes them wander waywardly.
On reflection, such seemingly unacceptable behaviour is sadly part and parcel of our own relationship with God.
''For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the Lord your God, saying, Pray for us unto the Lord our God, and according unto all that the Lord our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it.
And now I have this day declared it to you, but you have not obeyed the voice of the Lord your God...'
Jeremiah 42:20-21
If a tooth does not mend its way and continue to subject us to severe pain, we can get a dentist to extricate it. And the yawning gap can be replaced by a crown.
What about our children?? Many normal parents cannot do that.
What about us?? God is longsuffering with us.
'....which sometimes were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.'
1 Peter 3:20
God Blesses
Eng Hieang
Note: By God's grace, who sent my cousin David to help the computer illiterate me, I have finally been able to do what God has put in my heart these past one year.
The website http://www.hieang.com is finally up. It is meant simply to be a resource from which you could read some of my notes of my past walk with the Lord.
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