No Fishing Report; every thing still frozen. Although I am planning a family trip and went to the fly shop and figured out what patterns we will need.
Love is an interesting thing. Have you ever had trouble accepting that someone loves you for you and for no other reason? Is your spouse fully devoted to you? Do you believe they are? You should. If you are in a solid Christian marriage your spouse should love you as God does. In Ephesians 5 Paul tells us (men) to love our wives as Christ loves the Church. I want to extrapolate on that thought; I believe that the picture we see here is that of a marriage like no other. Christ accepts us because we have accepted the gift of His love and for not for what we have done or haven’t done. In a true marriage within Christ this is how our love should be toward our spouse one that is unconditional. It should not be a love that says “I love you because you…” or should not ask “I will love you if…” it should be one of I love you. We need to accept our spouse with their flaws and shortcomings. We all have things that are not perfect about us and things that drive our spouse nuts, so we must look beyond those things in our spouse that our spouse looks beyond in us.
Now back to the original thought “Do you have trouble in accepting love from someone?” If you have this problem (I think that this is very common), you need to accept God’s love first once you come to grips with that then you will be able to accept the love of your spouse and your kids. I have been reading H. A. Ironside lately, his First John commentary. Quite clearly I am as we all are a desperately wicked creature and only because of His grace, a free gift, am I able to stand in his presence. Through God’s wonderful plan we can experience His love through our spouse here on earth. Try it, this week; act as if unconditional love is all you know and all you are receiving, see if that changes your perspective.
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