Hosea 4:6 (KJV) "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children."
The things we don't know can truly hurt us. The problem arises when what we don't know, also hurts the people we love. For example, a husband and wife who both have past hurts and issues marry, and have children. Then, due to their lack of knowledge in handling the brokenness in one another, end up breaking their own children--who grow up and do the same.
Many of you that have been with me awhile, know that I often say, "Wounded people -wound people". Why? Because they are bad people? No, because they are broken people. It may take many years to understand why you feel the way you do. It may take being married, and your partner seeing something and pointing it out, before you are able to recognize it. Whatever it takes, it is what God wants to do. God's desire is that we be whole. We were all like Mephibosheth. We were dropped in the original Fall when Adam fell. Here below, is the story in case you are new to the Bible, or missed the story in your reading of the Bible:
Mephibosheth was the son of Jonathan, who was the son of King Saul and a special friend of King David. When Mephibosheth was five years old, his father Jonathan was killed in battle. Fearing that the Philistines would seek to take the life of the young boy, a nurse fled with him to Gibeah, the royal residence, but in her haste she dropped him and both of his feet were crippled (2 Samuel 4:4). He was carried to the land of Gilead, where he found refuge in the house of Machir, son of Ammiel, at Lo-debar.
Lo-debar means-without pasture. This is our state when we have no Shepherd, or we refuse to follow those that God has placed in our life. It is a place where we fend for ourselves. God has always intended to meet our needs according to His riches in glory. (Philippians 4:19)
If you feel like an Orphan, or that everything you will ever have depends on you? You may be feeling the effects of the Fall? The second Adam came to restore us to our rightful place in Christ, where He is our Father, and our Provider, our Shelter and the Lover of our souls. No one can take God's place. If you're looking for God a man or a woman won't fill that void. Only God, can make us whole again. Only God, can heal a broken heart. Two broken people don't make a healthy marriage. A healed man and a healed woman submitted to God and His plans for their marriage, is what it takes to be successful in life, and in the life of generations to come.
Many of you that have been with me awhile, know that I often say, "Wounded people -wound people". Why? Because they are bad people? No, because they are broken people. It may take many years to understand why you feel the way you do. It may take being married, and your partner seeing something and pointing it out, before you are able to recognize it. Whatever it takes, it is what God wants to do. God's desire is that we be whole. We were all like Mephibosheth. We were dropped in the original Fall when Adam fell. Here below, is the story in case you are new to the Bible, or missed the story in your reading of the Bible:
Mephibosheth was the son of Jonathan, who was the son of King Saul and a special friend of King David. When Mephibosheth was five years old, his father Jonathan was killed in battle. Fearing that the Philistines would seek to take the life of the young boy, a nurse fled with him to Gibeah, the royal residence, but in her haste she dropped him and both of his feet were crippled (2 Samuel 4:4). He was carried to the land of Gilead, where he found refuge in the house of Machir, son of Ammiel, at Lo-debar.
Lo-debar means-without pasture. This is our state when we have no Shepherd, or we refuse to follow those that God has placed in our life. It is a place where we fend for ourselves. God has always intended to meet our needs according to His riches in glory. (Philippians 4:19)
If you feel like an Orphan, or that everything you will ever have depends on you? You may be feeling the effects of the Fall? The second Adam came to restore us to our rightful place in Christ, where He is our Father, and our Provider, our Shelter and the Lover of our souls. No one can take God's place. If you're looking for God a man or a woman won't fill that void. Only God, can make us whole again. Only God, can heal a broken heart. Two broken people don't make a healthy marriage. A healed man and a healed woman submitted to God and His plans for their marriage, is what it takes to be successful in life, and in the life of generations to come.
ACTION STEPS: Ask yourself if what your spouse has been telling you is true? Think about the relationship issues that keep reoccurring in your life? Might there be something you don't know? If the answer is yes, then spend some time with God asking Him to not only heal you, but reveal to you where, and when you you're dropped? What we don't know can hurt us.
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