Today I've sat down to write something several times and had nothing to say. I'm actually feeling that way right now. I have so many thoughts in my head. I have such a heavy heart and yet can't seem to get it out. It's not that I don't want to write, I'm simply speechless. This NEVER happens.
Maybe as I try to explain, my words will come.
Honestly, I believe my lack of communication right now is because I'm stunned. Simply stunned at what Satan can do in people's lives. Don't get me wrong, I've been equally stunned, shocked, excited about what God has done too. But the past few days it's just one blow after another in friends' lives.
I had the pleasure of 'reconnecting' with a friend after not talking for almost a year. Things happened that caused a separation between us, not by my choice. None the less, the choice was made and now God is bringing her back into my life. Do you want to know why she's coming back around? Satan. Satan got into her home and into her husband. I say this, knowing she would completely agree. Her husband allowed Satan to feed him lies and he ate everyone of them up. He has now left and is pursuing 'other options'. She now needs people whom she can reach out to who will love her as she's broken and healing. What allowed what once seemed to be a Godly man to become so distracted? So full of lust? So proud? So hard? So selfish? So deceived? So disconnected?
I also have two friends right now of very different lifestyles, ages, backgrounds, genders, and passions who are finding themselves bearing the responsibility of bringing a baby into their lives. Single parents now faced with life changing decisions. There's no 'redo' or 'take back' on that one. There's no 'oops'! This is a baby they must now deal with, love, raise, shelter, protect, and show how to love God. Can it be done? Absolutely!! Is it the end of the world? NO! But I have to question again, Godly people making poor decisions. How did they become so distracted? So selfish? So full of lust? So hard? So proud? So deceived? So disconnected?
Satan is such a master of disguises and it angers me to pieces how he sneaks in on people. How he creeps into small crevices like a cavity then before you know it, there's decay. Thankfully our souls and lives, like a tooth, can be restored.
I'm watching with my own eyes one friend as she is being restored in Christ as she carries her growing baby in her belly. I'm listening to another friend as she's being restored as she's filing divorce papers. Both of these woman are seeking God's will and are closer to him now than ever. They've seen destruction in their lives and have had to come to an understanding of it and are ready to put their lives into God's hands and simply say 'you're in control'. My girl friend told me that her husband leaving her and their 2 small children was huge, but God is SO much bigger!
Please pray for these three friends of mine. Pray that a cheating husband will find his way back to God, the lover of his soul. Pray for the two 'soon to be single parents' that they will raise their children in the truth of Jesus, the lover of their souls!
Matthew 11:28
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
John 8
“If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on my own; God sent me. 43 Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say. 44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies. 45 Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me! 46 Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me? 47 Whoever belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”
