Monday, October 11, 2004
Confrontation
Today, I am struggling with how to confront someone about their marriage. This marriage is heading down a road of a partnership for the sake of the children or divorce. How do you approach someone who has made life horrible for their wife and children? He has tried to control their every move, to the point of them not wanting to leave the house for fear he will get mad at them. Most everything is mental abuse and not physical. Thank our Good Lord for that. If you are a praying Christian person, please pray for this family!
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If you're stuggling, that's probably a sign that you shouldn't butt into someone else's business. It's easy to confuse one's own ego and sense of self-importance with the actual nudging of the Holy Spirit. I'm pretty sure that were the Lord urging you to butt in, you'd have clarity about it.
Thank you, everyone who has responded to this post. Continue to pray. I have spoke with the friend before about this and now I have to urge him to follow the word of the Lord.
Ephesians 5:25 - Ephesians 5:28 (NIV) 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
If he doesn't, then I have to continue to follow the word.
Matthew 18:16 - Matthew 18:17 (NIV)
15“If your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over. 16 But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’ 17 If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, treat him as you would a pagan or a tax collector.
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