~ By the same token.. you do your best with the ppl in your life.. to treat them or raise them or love them or serve them as God commands.. but there comes a point in every relationship where you have to completely take your hands off of that person and leave their choices between them and God.. praying that he would keep them from all deception and bring them to a place of Godly truth as soon as possible..
seldom a quick process..
always painful for a parent or spouse to have to watch,
and to silently walk thru with them..
trusting God to speak to them when they have rejected all that God has put in your heart for them
~ It's kinda like prophecy.. you pour into their life what God gave you to share with them.. and then you have to let them go on their way.. what they choose to do with the blessing God has given them is out of your hands and in God's. Just how it is.. no matter how painful and tormenting it may be.. that's the flipside of love.. abundant life coupled with the experience of the blackest death...
~ Job put his family inside the hedge.. as far as his authority as a parent and spouse could.. they had to make the choice to covenant with hell or to covenant with God... they had to choose to live inside the hedge or not.
~ to know love would seem to require that you know death... all the pain of violent illness, gut wrenching putrid vomit from the lowest deepest places of your soul as you die daily.
~ why God would choose to love us.. knowing the cost would be such a death.. is beyond me.. that crazy, beautiful, amazing God of ours <3
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