In America right now we are dealing with a Global Pandemic, Cultural Wars, Racial Reconciliation, Economic Recession and last but not least Spiritual Warfare like never before for Christians in North America.
That level of toxic stress can take a good marriage to a bad place and a struggling marriage into failure. However, it can also create an environment for spiritual change that can take you and your family to a better place than you have ever been.
That will require each of us to own our personal spiritual maturity and to reach a place of total surrender and trust in the Father’s calling on our lives. The changes you know that you need to make in your marriage are not just important any more but now they are absolutely urgent.
Don’t waste this disruption and not make the personal changes that need to be made in your life and family. IF NOT NOW, WHEN? That is exactly how the Father wants to use this crisis to bring us to a point of change for your good and His glory.
The Father designed marriages to be exhibit A for the gospel. He raised it to the level of importance that it is compared to the relationship Christ has with the church.
When other people including our children see husbands giving unconditional supernatural love to their wives and when wives respect their husbands by following their spiritual leadership it demonstrates the results of being a fully devoted follower of Christ.
The reason the spiritual warfare is so intense on biblical marriage is because if the Christian family goes down then it won’t be long before the church: gathered and scattered goes down with it. When the church goes down and looses its voice to speak into the culture, the gospel suffers and the entire mission of redemption and restoration is negatively impacted in a significant way.
Bottom line biblical marriage requires a level of spiritual maturity that the majority of Christians never reach. Loving someone unconditionally that many times does not deserve it and respecting someone who has not earned it demands the Holy Spirit’s power in your life.
If you can by God’s grace consistently have a biblical marriage then every other major responsibility you have in life just got easier. You will have reached a level of spiritual maturity that your family becomes a ministry and your career a calling.
When you are using this supernatural power in every situation from the bad meeting at work to the toxic person in the grocery store to the ungrateful teenager at home, everyone will see Jesus Christ in you.