*Ego and Lies of the enemy*
Ever wondered about these verses?
"Never allow the sun to go down on your anger or you will give the enemy a foothold.."
"The devil is the father of lies.."
"The enemy comes to kill, steal and to destroy.."
"Be angry but do not sin."
"Anger lies in the blossom of fools."
"Whatever is good, whatsoever is pure, whatsoever is of Good report, think on these things."
Many times in marriage we have issues with our spouse and we get so angry with them and many times we fail to resolve the issue, to forgive each other before we sleep. This is dangerous, because it can breed bitterness, unforgiveness, disunity and divorce. We don't need that.
Look at this scenario:
A wife has a an issue with her husband and she goes silent and shuts down on him. Then he leaves the house in anger, to "cool off" and came home very late.
During the night, the anger grew.. then she started GETTING all sorts of nasty thoughts against her husband and why he didn't stay to resolve the matter instead of leaving the house, and where did he go after their quarrel, and so on.
It goes further, she starts to assume that what her spouse did to anger her was not only intentional, but was meant to Hurt her really badly... Then she allowed the bad thoughts to go even further, that she began to think up all the nasty things she will say to him to hurt him back like she Concluded that he meant to do to her.
Sure enough, when morning came by, they had an even worse argument because she failed to control her thoughts and eventually her words/actions.
By God's grace she and her spouse eventually worked things out and forgave each other. They talked and found out it was pure misunderstanding of each others motives!
This scenario above plays out over and over many times until we realise what is happening and put a STOP to it!
During the course of the night while being angry with your spouse, the devil begins to accuse your spouse to you.
He lies about your spouse to you, telling you lies that seem to correlate with the current quarrel... but they are lies!
The aim is to set you and your spouse AGAINST EACH OTHER.
Your spouse (wife or husband) is not the devil.
Your marriage will be stronger and not end in divorce.
Your spouse is the opposite of anything bad running through your thoughts, by God's grace.
When in a disagreement with your spouse, shut off all negative thoughts running through your mind concerning your spouse and marriage.
Shut down the negative and turn on the positive thoughts... force your mind to turn to positive thoughts and PRAY about the situation... then go make peace with your spouse.
God help us all.
Don't sleep angry, even if the other person is stand offish ... Go make peace and ask for forgiveness and ask them to let the anger go.
May God help us all to overcome ego and pride and submit to God and to each other in Jesus name amen.
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