ChosenRebel --Both Who I Am and Who I'm Striving Not to Be
[A Sojourner's Creed]
I belong to Christ.
My time and my life are His.
He directs the moments and the activity of my days.
He is the counselor whose wisdom I follow.
He is the model for how I live, and the audience I seek to please.
He has called me to worship Him.
He has gifted me to serve Him.
I belong to Christ, and I will live for Him today and forever.
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Answering Machine Rant
The world would probably be fifty percent more efficient if people kept their answering machine / voice mail recordings to under 10 seconds.
How much must a husband and wife cling to one another and become one flesh (EP. 5:31)? Can they get their own rooms ...own sinks..own bathrooms? This isn't to be taken as a joke. But men and women have to spend time apart from each other in order to stay sane, do they not? Is it more pleasing to God to share and be driven "crazy" or to spend less time together and not be so annoyed?
Good question. Canthey get their own sinks and bathrooms? Perhaps. Can they get their own rooms? Probably not. There are limits to what is wise and helpful and what is counterproductive. In some cases, what drives us "crazy" and "annoys" us is not some wrongness in our spouse but some character flaw in us that comes up against something in them.
Love covers a multitude of sin (see Prov. 10:12 and 1 Peter 4:7-9). Too often a couple runs away from conflict rather than working together, under the guidance and power of the Holy Spirit, to overcome differences and blindspots and insensitivities.
It is not escape that pleases God but earnest effort at peace and harmony (Psalm 133). See for example Philippians 4:2-9 for a great example of two people in disharmony and what Paul urges upon them. Now if this is his counsel to two woman, certainly it would, at least, be his counsel to married couples where much more is at stake. Or you could go to 1 Corinthians 7:1-5, 10-11 and see what Paul says to couples having difficulty in their marriage.
3 comments:
Ah...finally a post on Marty's blog that doesn't require over 98% of my brain to comment.
YES! I completely agree.
How much must a husband and wife cling to one another and become one flesh (EP. 5:31)? Can they get their own rooms ...own sinks..own bathrooms? This isn't to be taken as a joke. But men and women have to spend time apart from each other in order to stay sane, do they not? Is it more pleasing to God to share and be driven "crazy" or to spend less time together and not be so annoyed?
Good question. Canthey get their own sinks and bathrooms? Perhaps. Can they get their own rooms? Probably not. There are limits to what is wise and helpful and what is counterproductive. In some cases, what drives us "crazy" and "annoys" us is not some wrongness in our spouse but some character flaw in us that comes up against something in them.
Love covers a multitude of sin (see Prov. 10:12 and 1 Peter 4:7-9). Too often a couple runs away from conflict rather than working together, under the guidance and power of the Holy Spirit, to overcome differences and blindspots and insensitivities.
It is not escape that pleases God but earnest effort at peace and harmony (Psalm 133). See for example Philippians 4:2-9 for a great example of two people in disharmony and what Paul urges upon them. Now if this is his counsel to two woman, certainly it would, at least, be his counsel to married couples where much more is at stake. Or you could go to 1 Corinthians 7:1-5, 10-11 and see what Paul says to couples having difficulty in their marriage.
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