It is very important that you choose a partner that is a good assistant. I'm speaking now to the men of the family. But first the men must know their purpose, so their wives can assist them in it. Consider yourselves as two eggs. Whether you understand what I am about to say or not, this is a fact: An omelet is only as good as the eggs that are in it. If there is one rotten egg, it will spoil the whole omelet. How good the other egg is won't make any difference. You will not be able to separate the omelet into their original state again. However, I will not carry that analogy too far. The Lord God can change a "rotten egg" into a good one and reconstruct the omelet (meaning marriage). He is the only One that can accomplish that.
In God's Constitution it states: Whoever has no rule over his own spirit is like a city broken down, without walls. Now to bring that principle into modern terms, allow me to paraphrase it. "He who does not have full control of himself (or herself) is like an open city for anyone to take and rule over". This is another reason it is so important to read and study the Word of the living God. It will give you a solid foundation to live an effective life. I will state this as well: "Anyone who does not know who they are will become fair game for someone else to mold into another image". King Jesus taught this in Matthew 13:3-9: He began to share the parable of sowing seeds into different kinds of ground. The disciples really didn't understand, so after the meeting they asked Him to explain. Then He spoke many things to them in parables, saying: “Behold, a sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell by the wayside; and the birds came and devoured them. Some fell on stony places, where they did not have much earth; and they immediately sprang up because they had no depth of earth. But when the sun was up they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered away. And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them. But others fell on good ground and yielded a crop: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”
He spoke about the four kinds of "soil" but I want to draw your attention to one of them: that of the stony ground. In Matthew 13:21, Jesus stated that the reason people with that kind of heart cannot stand when persecution comes is because they have no roots in them. yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles. The root of any plant is its source of nutrients, the source of strength, the source of the shape that the plant takes and the fruit it bears. Jesus was saying that those individuals without enough of the Word in them, those people who are not separate, whole and unique because of being founded on Him, have no roots in themselves.
Churches today are filled with people dying in the midst of life. Individuals who have no roots. On the other extreme, people who are so full of pride and self-importance that other people's reactions to them do not count, have just as many broken walls under all that facade.
Keep in mind, you are what you "eat". What do you feed on?
Proverbs 25:28 Matthew 13:3-9 Matthew 13:21
~~W.R. Luchie
In God's Constitution it states: Whoever has no rule over his own spirit is like a city broken down, without walls. Now to bring that principle into modern terms, allow me to paraphrase it. "He who does not have full control of himself (or herself) is like an open city for anyone to take and rule over". This is another reason it is so important to read and study the Word of the living God. It will give you a solid foundation to live an effective life. I will state this as well: "Anyone who does not know who they are will become fair game for someone else to mold into another image". King Jesus taught this in Matthew 13:3-9: He began to share the parable of sowing seeds into different kinds of ground. The disciples really didn't understand, so after the meeting they asked Him to explain. Then He spoke many things to them in parables, saying: “Behold, a sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell by the wayside; and the birds came and devoured them. Some fell on stony places, where they did not have much earth; and they immediately sprang up because they had no depth of earth. But when the sun was up they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered away. And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them. But others fell on good ground and yielded a crop: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”
He spoke about the four kinds of "soil" but I want to draw your attention to one of them: that of the stony ground. In Matthew 13:21, Jesus stated that the reason people with that kind of heart cannot stand when persecution comes is because they have no roots in them. yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles. The root of any plant is its source of nutrients, the source of strength, the source of the shape that the plant takes and the fruit it bears. Jesus was saying that those individuals without enough of the Word in them, those people who are not separate, whole and unique because of being founded on Him, have no roots in themselves.
Churches today are filled with people dying in the midst of life. Individuals who have no roots. On the other extreme, people who are so full of pride and self-importance that other people's reactions to them do not count, have just as many broken walls under all that facade.
Keep in mind, you are what you "eat". What do you feed on?
Proverbs 25:28 Matthew 13:3-9 Matthew 13:21
~~W.R. Luchie
