This does stem from the fact I was raised have certain expectations about human relationship protocols and over 38 years, have seen the massive importance of their adherance and execution between parties.
Ultimately, that is my life. I was raised to give glory to God, and no matter how far I try and run, He always brings me back to His word and obedience to it.
Why? It is simple, easy and light.
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“For my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light.Matthew 11:30
38 years. I've watched myself and people wrestle with God for 38 years, and I can't get away from how ridiculously simple and easy life is to understand.
It gets hard when we try and craft our own way, reinventing God's design and plan.
- God's vision for a man and woman is marriage. They are to submit fully to each other in all things.
- Their job is to love their spouse unconditionally. Period. If they can't do this, they should not get married and practice submitting to God until they can.
- God will rebuke and bring each spouse into His will, and this includes turning up the heat on submission to each other until they either do it, or walk away.
- If they walk away, let them go. God is in charge of your marriage, not you, and your job is to live at peace with all people.
Men and women love to blame each other for sins and classify each other outside the scope of the love they are being called to show to each other.
- Narcissist
- Psychopath
- Toxic
These are unbiblical words that, just as Adam named the animals, allow people to abstract certain people out of their scope of responsibility, especially when it comes to human relationships. The standard is simple.
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“Bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.... But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He Himself is ki…See MoreLuke 6:28 & 35
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“But I say, love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you! In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just an…See MoreMatthew 5:45-46
In truth, these words classify sins, and we are very quick to push people away that desperately need help and grace. It gives us the authority to disconnect from the calling we have been given, and allows us to feel good about doing it.
Well-intentioned relgious counselors are destroying God's design. We pay them, they give us the tools to escape the Lord's Gym.
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“They will act religious, but they will reject the power that could make them godly. Stay away from people like that! They are the kind who work their way into people’s homes and win the confidence of vulnerable women who are …See More2 Timothy 3:5-6
In doing this, they have created a god who's highest priority is the well-being and fair-treatment of His followers. This is not the same God that sent His son to the cross, promised trials and tribulations for those who take up their own crosses, and who uses His people's pain and suffering to redeem others through their faithful walk.
This new god/kingdom is perfectly attuned to allowing the pride and agrogance of humanity to flourish, all while promising them their actions are godly. It promises security, ease of life, fair-treatment, individuality, respect, and real-love — all out of context from God's design. His kingdoms are attractive... and leave a wake of collateral damage behind them.
In picture form, you show up to the gym to work out, and reject the trainer you came to see, opting to instead sit at the drink bar and sip on a protein supplement. Jesus came to bring us into His Kingdom, which makes enemies friends and destroys evil through love and submission to the "weight lifting" of triails. His Kingdom restores through temporal pain... while all other kindoms create pain through self-gratification, pride, ego, and indulgences of the id.
In the end, through allegiences to this god and kingdom, marriages are destroyed and people's lives are forever altered as they now must wrestle with relationships that are completely outside the scope of God's way.
I want God's best. I don't care how it comes to me.
- I want a best friend that loves me unconditionally, just as I love her unconditionally.
- I want a best friend who understands how I think and approves of it. I want a best friend who is hungry and thirsty for God and His righteousness.
- I want a best friend who understands my limitations and loves me for them, just as I will love her for hers.
- I want a best friend who returns my submission to her, even in sexuality, so we can both do what pleases the other and do it because we know we love each other.
- I want a best friend who is okay with breaking the rules for fun, including skinny dipping at a party.
- I want a best friend who wants to serve others and refuses to judge them when they disagree with her.
- I want a best friend who desires to serve others and love them, because of God, not because of what they can do for her.
- I want a best friend whom I can wake up to every morning, look at, rejoice that God has given me such a beautiful, precious gift, and just say "Wow."
— Micah