Jesus Christ is THE Lord
Greetings Bonbebe,
God is good. How marvelous are all His ways. Let us praise His name, yes PRAISE HIM!
Sister, as a man of eleven children, and a couple of sponsor children, and several children in the Lord, I beseech you to call upon His name with thanks giving and continual praise. May I draw your attention to the scriptures...
All things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose....Romans 8:28
The ....prayer of a righteous man availeth much James 5:16
....Jesus is the Lord... 1Corinthians 12:3
As we all pray for peace, may God bless your mind and your husbands with the knowlege or truth found in these scriptures.
Many times I have encountered dramas like the one you describe, sister. In all things, put in front that JESUS is the Lord, not only of our church service or happiness zone, but THE LORD full stop, yes the Lord of your life, every bit of it....your Lord, and He is the good master and only has good things prepared for you....which includes your family...you are one. Now, folks are praying, and they are righteous...made so by the blood of the Lamb, so we know that He hears us....in fact, this whole affair is His doing, in that our good, is His determination and desire.
There is one other scripture that definitely compels us to believe in His love and care, His Lordship, and that is... to lean NOT on our understanding....for me this has helped so many times when my way of seeing things has been hard to grasp in terms of God loving me...you see, we only see dimly now, and we get sidetracked by events that seemingly are bad, and as we start down the road of analysis, we come to wobbly conclusions, unless we PUT,(a doing word, a act of deliberation) Jesus first, leaning not on our understanding of things, but trusting Him as Lord to have it all in control even if it doesn't make sense right now....He has always given me peace and shown me the reasons, and He will do it for you. ( the scripture says LET the peace of God... LET...it is a command, as it is His word, so we must do it. Too often we see this word as a suggestion, a good idea, but God has spoken to us in His Word, and we need to see that every word is His command, and so be obedient. Are we wanting our children to listen to us if we don't listen to our Father God? )
Sister, we can all say Jesus is Lord, it rolls of the lips. But remember that He loves us too much to leave it at that! We all need to have opportunity to show it, in our lives....check out Paul as one example, beaten, rejected, imprisoned, hungry, bitten, shipwrecked, etc. and we too need to have affliction...remember that we are an example, a living testimony, proof in this world and the heavenlies, that Jesus IS Lord, and No matter what happens, He is the Lord, and we have His peace, His Comfort, and praise on our lips...and nothing can take that from us! This is a time for your husband to totally trust Jesus that it is OK, to thank Him even, to Praise Him, and watch and see that He is good. I can assure you of this as I have encountered the same sort of thing, and if your husband is moved, good, but not in the direction of anger or bitterness, but deep understanding of Gods love.
It is OK to cry, to be upset....look at how the Lord is moved when His children reject Him, when they are taken captive, and see that love cares, and while we remain in His love, we are in His care....and just as we are one with Him, our children are one with us, part of us, so size up the Lord, and see if He would only care in part.....God forbid! No, your life is in His hands, and those you love are in His hands, and we can thank Him that He is not powerless, but rather, almighty and has a perfect plan for your step daughter. It's truly exciting! Wow! The King of Kings, the Creator of this whole universe, who knows every hair on everyones head, and knows and cares for every bird and flower, wow, knows every star, by name! it's mind boggling, yes, the Lord of lords has each life in His perfect plan and, we know that He is good and we can trust Him...He's been doing it for quite a lot longer than we have been around for, and if He tarries, will keep doing it after we've "gone".
Bless you sister, and I hope these words bring some answer to the prayers of the saints. And may you dear husband be blessed too!
I have just come across this in E-Sword....and so add it to what I have written....
"We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God."
- Act_14:22
God’s people have their trials. It was never designed by God, when he chose his people, that they should be an untried people. They were chosen in the furnace of affliction; they were never chosen to worldly peace and earthly joy. Freedom from sickness and the pains of mortality was never promised them; but when their Lord drew up the charter of privileges, he included chastisements amongst the things to which they should inevitably be heirs. Trials are a part of our lot; they were predestined for us in Christ’s last legacy.
So surely as the stars are fashioned by his hands, and their orbits fixed by him, so surely are our trials allotted to us: he has ordained their season and their place, their intensity and the effect they shall have upon us. Good men must never expect to escape troubles; if they do, they will be disappointed, for none of their predecessors have been without them. Mark the patience of Job; remember Abraham, for he had his trials, and by his faith under them, he became the "Father of the faithful." Note well the biographies of all the patriarchs, prophets, apostles, and martyrs, and you shall discover none of those whom God made vessels of mercy, who were not made to pass through the fire of affliction.
It is ordained of old that the cross of trouble should be engraved on every vessel of mercy, as the royal mark whereby the King’s vessels of honour are distinguished. But although tribulation is thus the path of God’s children, they have the comfort of knowing that their Master has traversed it before them; they have his presence and sympathy to cheer them, his grace to support them, and his example to teach them how to endure; and when they reach "the kingdom," it will more than make amends for the "much tribulation" through which they passed to enter it.
From the writings of Spurgeon
Bless you!
