"Anyway, I would be a fool not to listen to my wife as it pertains to the effect of something like this on our kids. Both emotionally and spiritually. Those are things that I'm not always in tune with because I'm a testosterone filled dude... and they are her babies.
Know what I mean?
So it's tough to know what to do."..Krispy.
Getting as low to the floor as I can here Krisp, that is exactly my point. Consider the Patriarchs, and Abraham himself. It was completely illogical for him to leave Ur, and his family , and all comfort and protection to sojourn outward into a hostile world, alone, to search for another city, and possibly Sarah wasn't so thrilled about it all also; it did not matter.
I myself have made many such decisions in my marriage, and at least one or two alone, with much resistance from my family and wife, with hostility.....but I made the decision that I thought best for them, and moreover and more important, the decision that pleased God, not even myself.
In one of them, my wife told me that if I proceeded that she would leave me, and take my son with her. I was so confident that I was in the will of God, and so fearful, that I told her that I would miss her, but she would have to go, if this was her choice, but I was doing the other thing, that I knew was right.
She ended up packing up, and left. I continued in my way, and after a few days, she repented, and did return under my roof. In this, I must say, that I received a promotion from the Lord, and He displayed His pleasure toward me, and I knew He was satisfied that He might trust me to stand, even when I stood alone, to perform His will.
So, is your home and your roots and family the source of your decisions, unlike Abraham, or is it to follow the Lamb, WHEREVER He may Go?
"Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword.
For I have come to ‘set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law’; and ‘a man’s enemies will be those of his own household.’
He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.
And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it."..and..
"“Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife[ or children or lands, for My sake and the gospel’s, who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time;
...houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life.
But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”...Jesus
This is the very core of discipleship itself; EVERYTHING is on the alter...EVERYTHING..and especially your worldly loves and possessions, your future and your supposed well being and it is at the basis of GO!...
"And as He walked by the Sea of Galilee, He saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.
Then Jesus said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you become fishers of men.”
They immediately left their nets and followed Him."
Do we act in this way? ....I hope.
Peter had a family, and fishing was his only security. Beware that you justify rebellion by exalting your own desire for comfort and peace among your family. Lay everything at His alter, holding nothing back, including the love of your children and wife. Be the Head of your Home, and the Priest of your home, and make this decision as unto the Lord, no matter the cost, and you will be blessed.
