However, this story does have a happy ending - God turned this man around and led him to repentance from his old ways. The man was the first to lead his wife out by the hand, and held his arms around her shoulders in an altar call session. In his e-mail to my pastor*, the man shared that God Himself resurrected the once-dead marriage, and he now loves his wife.
So what's my scary after-thought?
Well, it's uplifting to hear testimonies like this. But it also make me wonder: Abba, how can you let the woman suffer for ten over years in such a loveless relationship? And for that matter, why did You allow the man to go down that path? Why, Lord, WHY?
Hmmm, even as I was blogging down this question, I was reminded of Nebuchadnezzar from Daniel 4. I guess in the end, the important thing is to remember that the Lord brings glory to Himself in all our sufferings. What we think as impossible, it is possible with God. And whatever we deemed as losses and pains, He sees and will repay us beyond our wildest imagination**.
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* My pastor read his e-mail over the pulpit with the man's permission.
** Go read Joel 2, the whole of it.
Scary... but He also allowed the blind men to remain blind till Jesus came, so that God may be glorified through them.
ReplyDeleteRemember, its not about us, but Him.
Though i can't speak from the perspective of the woman, but from the human viewpoint, what's our years of suffering and waiting compared to His death on the cross for our sins? =)
How great, is our God!
yeaps, there's an old Hokkien adage that properly defines this:
ReplyDelete"Lir eh bak chiu bung dor lor?" :D
and sometimes it's scary to have such thoughts in our minds, when we seems to be like questioning God's soveriegnty. But somehow, I feel better after asking it out; for He doth answers me with passages from His word and other writings.
What scares me and baffles me is how fragile human relationships can be...and how much we need God to be in the picture of all relationships.
ReplyDeleteI guess the fragility is what makes it more precious. :P
ReplyDelete有时人就是那么矛盾/贱/苯，要等到要/已经失去时，才懂得去珍惜。。。