Tamara

The Bride of Christ and Divorce Current mood: vexed Category: Religion and Philosophy"The Bride of Christ will be a sanctified, holy and without blemish nation of people unto God. She will be a glorified Bride and her glory will be seen as a witness in all the earth. She will be a praise and honor unto God while being a faithful servant unto Him. She will love God with all her heart, mind, soul and strength. She will seek God, His ways and how to please Him at all times. She will not seek her own pleasures or her own will but will submit to do God's perfect Will in her life. She will overcome the desires of the world and the spiritual obstacles that stand in her way from being perfectly acceptable to her heavenly Bridegroom."Excerpt taken from the Hebraic Heritage Ministries InternationalWhat a contrast to what we are seeing today. Every time I look around I see marriage after marriage, and ministry after ministry being destroyed by the deception of Satan, and the also because of the bad choices we make.From Paul White, and Juanita Bynum to the family nobody knows, marriage is under attack! This should be no surprise because this is setting the stage for the Anti-Christ to do his thing!People are divorcing over stupid things, let alone unscriptural! "Well, our ministries were going in opposite directions!"Oh really now! See, now I have to question YOUR MINISTRY! Show me text were it says that is permissible. Jesus told the Pharisees that God only permitted divorce because of the hardness of ones heart! UH OH we forgot about that! So this means even in the case were someone has committed adultery, the divorce happened because of the hardness of someone's heart!So lets be real and call a spade a spade! Let me communicate this first...in no way am I bashing any certain minister, because this demon of divorce has reared its ugly head even in my home once or twice!Paul says in 2 Corinthians 11:2 2I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to himHow is the body of Christ to be presented as a virgin if we are sleeping with enemy! I mean we are just giving it all up to the enemy, and we are being drawn away by our own lust and enticed! We think we can just "Fall Down" Monday through Friday and then "Get Up" on Sunday and give our tired, stankin, used up selves to a Holy God! Well, let me just give the "Body" a reality check...on dat great gettin' up mornan ( that great getting up morning lol) there will not be anytime to say "Oh I'm sorry Lawd...please have mercy on me a sinner!" Naw, won't be any of that! Now is the acceptable time to live holy because he told us to live holy. So don't you think if God, who is the essence of intelligence, tells us to BE holy for He is Holy that he has given us the power to do so! THEN WHY THE HECK DON'T WE EVEN TRY? You answer that!Yeah, I can hear it now, "Well, God is married to the backslider!" Okay, then why would he even mention the word virgin, as what he wants to be presented to His Son, in scripture if that was not His intent! God does make sense...WE DO NOT! Look at it this way. When Holy Spirit came upon Mary and she was impregnated with a promise so it is when Holy Spirit was given on the day of Pentecost as a promise to His children to keep us until He returns for His bride (not to mention all of the other functions of Holy Spirit)!So why is that over 50% of the church world wide our getting divorced when we have and know the power God has so graciously bestowed upon us? THE HARDNESS OF OUR HEARTS! We all know this saying, "There is nothing to hard for God" right? So true, and yet so not understood.Let us allow the word to do His job in our lives, and that is to wash us white as snow so that we may be presented as a chaste bride to our King of kings, and Lord of Lords...our Husband Jesus the Christ!Revelation 19:7 Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready"EVEN SO, COME, LORD JESUS!"TamP.S. I am no big time minister, but I know how it feels to be tempted, and wanna throw in the towel....God is a keepa....YES HE IS! Christian Myspace Layouts - Bible MySpace Layouts Christian Myspace Layouts