Marriage (well more specifically my marriage) has been on my mind quite a bit. Partly because in 10 days, my husband and I will be celebrating 15 years of marriage. It’s extra special because 2 years ago the wheels nearly fell off. We hit a breaking point. And while it certainly felt like it would be easier, less painful, and justifiable if we just walked away, we decided to STAND. And we discovered that LOVE WINS.
This year in lieu of making resolutions around things that I am going to do more of, I’m resolving instead to “be more”. Here are my 14 “be more’s” for 2014
Do you feel like you’re being called to live a life far different from the one you’re living now? Do you know that God has something big for you to do? At the same time, are you stuck due to fear & doubt? It’s time to cheat on fear, break up with doubt, get engaged to your faith, and marry your dreams!
And while she didn’t actually say the word. What begin to reverberate louder and louder in my already overburdened mind was HYPOCRITE. HYPOCRITE. Are you going to be a HYPOCRITE? Is your life of faith going to real or is it going to be fake?
So there it was. The raw, painful truth of the matter. I have done talks and written articles and posted blogs and coached and counseled people about faith, and trusting God, and “doing it afraid”, and getting out the boat. But when it came down to my own life, my own walk, my own BIG decision to make, I was seated squarely and firmly in the boat refusing the call to get up and step out and TRUST in the One who was calling me.
Sometimes we find ourselves in the midst of hard circumstances that are the result of our own decisions. When we are suffering through those challenging times, we may question if we have the right to even ask God to deliver us. We may feel like the obstacles that we are facing are our punishment for making a wrong decision. I imagine that Naomi may have felt that same way.
