A Husband’s Despair

A Husband in Despair

“Good afternoon Rev. Things are not getting better. It seems like the more people are praying for us the worse it gets. I’m going to be honest I’m getting weary and is at a point where I wish she would file. I know that’s not in God’s plan but the persecution is weighing me down. Pray extra hard for me because I need it.”

My heart goes out to this brother and his wife. Been praying for and counseling them for at least four years. My response to him:

“Sure will ‘my brother.’ I don’t have words except to ask God to help you through this. His Word says, “Fear thou not (whatever she does); for I am with thee (depend on His presence): be not dismayed (discouraged); for I am thy God (remember to whom YOU belong): I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee (give you strength and wisdom) with the right hand of my righteousness” (Isaiah 41:10). Praying much for you my dear brother. ”

Satan will never give up disrupting families. I’ve counseled church-going Christian couples with high income, high tech cars, beautiful homes, physically healthy, and healthy children. What was missing? First, deep abiding love for the Lord and secondly, and inevitably, genuine love for their spouse. Satan ripped their homes apart. Sometimes both were at fault; sometimes one. Sometimes God brings repentance, reconciliation, and recovery; sometimes He doesn’t, and I don’t understand why. I’ve been there. What I determined to do was stay in God’s Word (especially “Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee” [Psalm 119:11]). Then God had to accomplish in me only what He could do (Philippians 1:6; 2:13). To HIM be the glory! Blessings!