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After I became a Christian, my wife (then my girlfriend) and I were persecuted by my parents. They thought that God took me away from them. They first liked my wife but they started to hate her, for they blamed her for leading me to Christ.
We stood firm in our faith and shared with them that I was still their son and that we both still loved them. We also shared with them the Gospel of Christ. Later on, they knew that they had no hold on us anymore.
When my father was diagnosed with kidney cancer, he spoke to me and asked me and my cburch to pray for him. After his cancer was cured, he thanked us. It was a huge change in his life although he might still not accept Christ before he passed away.
Stand firm when we face persecutions especially from our family or close friends. We still need to show them that God loves them.
Dicky
It's true that there is no peace when we stand firm in our faith, as Jesus has warned us, "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, a man's enemies will be the members of his own household." (Matt 10:34-36).
ReplyDeleteI think your parents are too controlling over their children. As men of faith, we should live independent from our parents in terms of spirituality, thinking, and emotion, as the Bible teaches us that "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh." (Genesis 2:24).
In the past, you might have been led to Christ by your wife. But now, you should act as the spiritual leader in the family so that you learn how to love your wife as Christ loved His church: "Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church , without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself." (Eph 5:25-28). If a husband gives up the spiritual leadership, he actually does not know how to love his wife in the Lord. The faith is yours, and you should let your parents or anyone to know that choosing Jesus is your own choice in the past, present and future, not under the coercion of your wife or anyone.
Hi Pastor Lau,
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comment. For sure, my faith in Christ is real; I accepted Him as my choice. I did not know that she prayed for me around the same time that I asked Jesus into my heart.
You are right about spiritual leadership in the family. Also besides loving our wife, we need to understand her. Love and understanding should be connected like a ring. Breaking one breaks the other.
Thanks again for your comment.
Dicky
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