Wanted to share a portion of the book I've been reading! This book is a highly recommended book for those that are either married or getting married. God has only one intention for husbands that He CREATED and that is to lead families to the house of the Lord! Keep pressing, Keep praying, Keep reflecting the change of your heart!
As much as God desires to receive our worship and have an abiding relationship with us, He cannot and will not unjustly ignore the great barrier that our sin has created between Himself and us.
But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God,
And your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear. Isaiah 59:2
We may not ever feel like God's enemy, but by the simple fact that we inherit the sinful nature of Adam, we are His enemies from birth. Our sinful condition is seen in both our failure to worship God as He deserves and in our bent toward sin and selfishness (Romans 1:18-25; 5:10). But God did not leave us in this hopeless situation. We need not remain the enemies of God!
And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds, yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach. Colossians 1:21-22 [emphasis mine]
So far we have learned that man is sinful to the core, dead in his trespasses and sins, an enemy of God, fully responsible, and unable to meet God's standard or to help himself (Ephesians 2:1-7). Man was born with a debt of worship to his Creator, but instead has worshiped and served himself, even in his "good deeds." He is bound to the lustful, selfish and sinful desires of his flesh and is deceived by his sinstained mind and foolish heart.Even though man is restrained from full expression of his sinfulness, he is doomed (apart from God's direct intervention on his behalf) to suffer the consequences of his own sin and rebellion by spending an eternity in hell, paying for his sins against a holy God (2 Thessalonians 1:9; Revelation 20:11-15). What an ugly picture of ourselves! But God in His mercy is willing to make you into a different picture - a different man.**
**The Exemplary Husband (pg.36-37)
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Hey its Jake,
Thank you for those uplifting scriptures. I had a question..and even though someone great once said there are no dumb questions i belive i have a dumb question...Do you think God makes certain passages stick out above the rest so that we may grasp the current situation we are in? Because Peter 1:3-9 stuck out vividly in my mind as i read it....
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