Tuesday, December 08, 2009
As I am driving into work this morning I am praying, like I usually do every morning. Just enjoying a conversation with God while I am driving. I pray for my life's concerns, family, friends, pressing issues, but this particular morning I pray for a girl at my work that has been struggling and is currently living apart from her husband. They had been going down the road to divorce and she seemed happy about it, but I sensed differently, that is was all just a front to hide the fear. So I prayed for her that even though they were separated that maybe things would work out for the glory of God. After talking with this girl last week I realized that they were trying to work on their marriage again, but she didn't' know. She said they were both trying to get their lives right for God at different churches, so praying for his this morning was just to give them the strength to hear and fully understand Gods plans for their lives.
I get off the exit ramp and sit patiently to turn right onto Pelham Road. I felt the need to look over to my left and when I did my eyes fixated on the car's tag beside me. The tag had a plate outlining the tag that said "Corinthians," the actual tag read AMY 716.
The girls name is Amy, so I thought "what if God is trying to help me give her a verse to read," so I turned right, said thank you to God and hurried to work to look up the passage. I turned to 1 Corinthians chapter 7 verses 1-16 and to my surprise or Gods plotting hands, the chapter is on marriage.
I truly believe today was the first time I acted on something, followed through and found the God in the moment.
Thank you God for being a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.
Amen
1 Corinthians 7:1-16 (New Living Translation)
1 Corinthians 7
Instruction on Marriage
1 Now regarding the questions you asked in your letter. Yes, it is good to live a celibate life.[a]
2 But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.
3 The husband should fulfill his wife's sexual needs, and the wife should fulfill her husband's needs. 4 The wife gives authority over her body to her husband, and the husband gives authority over his body to his wife.
5 Do not deprive each other of sexual relations, unless you both agree to refrain from sexual intimacy for a limited time so you can give yourselves more completely to prayer. Afterward, you should come together again so that Satan won't be able to tempt you because of your lack of self-control. 6 I say this as a concession, not as a command. 7 But I wish everyone were single, just as I am. But God gives to some the gift of marriage, and to others the gift of singleness.
8 So I say to those who aren't married and to widows—it's better to stay unmarried, just as I am. 9 But if they can't control themselves, they should go ahead and marry. It's better to marry than to burn with lust.
10 But for those who are married, I have a command that comes not from me, but from the Lord.[b] A wife must not leave her husband. 11 But if she does leave him, let her remain single or else be reconciled to him. And the husband must not leave his wife.
12 Now, I will speak to the rest of you, though I do not have a direct command from the Lord. If a Christian man[c] has a wife who is not a believer and she is willing to continue living with him, he must not leave her. 13 And if a Christian woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is willing to continue living with her, she must not leave him. 14 For the Christian wife brings holiness to her marriage, and the Christian husband[d] brings holiness to his marriage. Otherwise, your children would not be holy, but now they are holy. 15 (But if the husband or wife who isn't a believer insists on leaving, let them go. In such cases the Christian husband or wife[e] is no longer bound to the other, for God has called you[f] to live in peace.) 16 Don't you wives realize that your husbands might be saved because of you? And don't you husbands realize that your wives might be saved because of you?
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