Author	Thread: Take our "God-for-a-day" Challenge: How will you treat your ex?
MyBoaz2011 View Profile History	Take our "God-for-a-day" Challenge: How will you treat your ex? Posted : 17 Feb, 2011 08:39 PM Hi Everyone, Welcome to our "God-for-a day" Challenge. I know this is an absolute impossibility!!! But here is the scenario: Beyond your wildest dreams, Arch-Angel Michael shows up in your room one awesome mid-night. You thought it was some weird dream or spooky event. But his voice bellows: You have won our God-for-a-day challenge and I'm here to usher you to your new supernatural status to play God of heaven and earth for the next 24hrs. He hands you the keys of life, death, heaven, hell, hades, the whole earth. Angels are at your service. Can you share a little bit on how you intend to use this new power - especially in relation to an ex? Thanks for being open and sincere. Actually, I'm thinking about it myself. Post Reply
vkjewell View Profile History	Take our "God-for-a-day" Challenge: How will you treat your ex? Posted : 23 Feb, 2011 03:21 PM Let's look at our painful but probably prayerful options along a Spiritual Maturity continuum . . . Who is your "ex" to God? The God we serve is a God of Reconciliation, and He has given me ( and you, if we answer to His Son and to the Holy Spirit) this primary ministry of reconciliation as well. If OT and NT Christians are our example, reconciliation is accomplished when some level of relationship is restored . . . each has released the other from the pains and debts of the past. Ideally the actual relationship (brothers, marriage partners, father and son) are restored fully as well. My walk with God may be unique; but He seems determined to limit MY input to and cooperation with this process to what He wants ME to do and to think about and to repair. And He sets the bar high. My first and greatest hurdle is always my own hurt. I suspect this is especially true of women, because we are more easily and deeply wounded by others. Emotional wounds have physical pains; and these cry to my thoughts day and night, preventing the Godly DESIRE for reconciliation on any level. The longer and deeper the investment in another; and the greater the acts of betrayal, the greater the pain that drives me away from forgiveness. For someone as touchy and stubborn as I am, it usually takes a long season of fellowship in bible study, conviction upon gentle conviction through devotionals and pastoral messages, and tenderizing in tearful worship services before I can even hear God with the right heart attitude about someone who has offended or betrayed me. But just as He is healing my newly injured foot one cell and one layer at a time (which burns!) I begin to see that the pain IS the healing and I agree to cooperate with the treatment (which burns!). Beware those who come to indulge your grudges and to listen to your grievances about another. Seek the wisdom and spiritual maturity of those who have rebuilt, restored, and made restitutiion -- even to those who have been the greater transgressor. Beware the previously married man or woman who has yet to come to that place in their divorce diatribe where they can speak of how they wounded the other party. They are wounded still and they are doomed to repeat their past. Post Reply

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