♕ Today's Promise: “So now, I'm going to attract you; I will take you to the desert and speak to you with affection.” Hosea 2:14
One of these days earthly husband started saying a lot of things very harshly and in the middle of them, he told me that I did nothing to seduce him - he was very angry at that moment and it was really hard to hear his words: (
I was still kind of dizzy, trying to understand exactly what he meant by that, when I remembered all the lessons I bring in my heart, everything I have learned and experienced here in our ministry and started talking to Him about if that was really The Truth, or more of the countless lies that we live with and we learned to discern them with His powerful Protection, I remember asking Him to help me be a better wife for earthly husband.
Suddenly, the confused feelings that were taking away my peace began to dissipate and I was able to smile again. I knew that He was there with me, surrounding me with His love, it was beautiful the way He told me everything would be fine and as soon as earthly husband left, I ran to the Daily Encouragement of the American blog, because He reminded me from a note that Erin had written in one of my dear friend Yvonne’s Praise Reports - and I read those wise words:
"Seducing is very different from attracting. Kind and loving words are attractive. Forgiveness is attractive. Someone who is at peace is attractive. Be sure to attract your husband through kindness, with words of love, that speak loud and clear that you really forgave him."
"So now I am going to lure you; I am going to take you into the desert and speak to you with affection." (Hosea 2:14).
Ahh how wonderful! How kind He is to me and to you, isn't he? Feeling that He is my Protection and Refuge, fills me with hope, even in the face of that situation, He held my hands and showed me the way \ o / He led me to understand what I needed to do in the first place was to probe my heart and see if i had let earthly husband go for real over and over again ... as Erin says: "You must first make sure he knows that you really let him go, then start attracting him with your kind words" 🙂
He reminded me of other difficult situations, other times when words and attitudes seemed to be able to destroy me, but with His Grace and Presence in my life, I could experience His love involving me and I could experience true joy even in through the tribulation \ o / I remembered what we learned in the book Finding the Abundant Life of how dissatisfied our husbands can be and how they, just as we need to meet the Lord in their and our lives!
Grateful for everything, I asked Him to help me, that I was more and more of Him and that I only wanted to have Him in my heart <3 And He helped me, giving me opportunities to be kind and gentle 🙂 weeks that followed. I was no longer concerned with what the earthly husband had told me - NO! I knew that what he said didn't matter! I know who's the last word in my life!
I ran to my Beloved and He led me, thanks to His love, I did not need to seduce the earthly husband, in fact, what he said was losing importance and that painful memory no longer existed! I was so close to my Beloved that I knew that everything would be resolved, thank you my Love!
Suddenly, one day earthly husband started praising me and saying how beautiful I was, that he wanted me to stay by his side and talked about how much he likes being with me - it seemed like what he said to me and (horrible!) the way she had spoken, it hadn't happened 🙂 God is faithful!
Dear friend, what I want to share with you today and also record so that I never forget that moment in my journey is that we have learned that we do not need to run after the men we love, but rather we have to run for the Son of Man who loves us. May we bow our hearts and seek His Love more and more! Only He can heal our disappointments and pains and truly love us!
“So now, I'm going to attract you; I will take you to the desert and speak to you with affection.” Hosea 2:14.
I led them with bonds of human kindness and great love; I was the one who removed the heavy yoke from their neck, and I leaned over to feed them. Hosea 11: 4
"So drag me with you! Let's run! Take me, O king, to your chambers and let us rejoice!" Songs 1: 4
~Paula in Brazil
Follow #Paula
I’m a tithing partner. Learn more.