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The Mirror of the Word and other works by C.E. White can be purchased on her website, cewhitebooks.com or on Amazon
“‘I also swore an oath to you and entered into a covenant with you so that you became mine,’ declares the Lord God.”
—Ezekiel 16:8
The Lord loves us far more than the most faithful spouse loves his wife or her husband. We are his, and he loves us perfectly.
Have you ever seen the sorrow brought about when the love of one spouse grows cold and they’ve begun seeking satisfaction elsewhere? Whether it’s to infidelity, hobbies, work, friends, or children, the committed spouse feels the sharp knife of sadness and betrayal at the wedge now between them.
They may even become angry and jealous toward the thing that’s taken their place. The Lord is the same. When our love strays and we begin seeking satisfaction elsewhere, he is jealous for us, angry at the thing that has stolen our affection, and he mourns the distance between us.
Later in this chapter, it says, “But you trusted in your beauty” (Ezekiel 16:15). Instead of trusting the Lord with our lives and remaining faithful to him, we too often begin trusting in our own innate abilities—the very things he gave us—to gain short–term fulfillment. We stray from the real love, intimate relationship, and foundation we have in him to the false love of this world and the sinking sand of our own abilities.
This grieves him, as it would grieve a person whose spouse prefers the fake, selfish satisfaction of pornography to the act of real, mutually selfless love with them.
Where are we trading the true love of God for the false love of this world? Let us put the temporary pleasure aside and build the lasting satisfaction that comes in a relationship built on the continual commitment that we are his.
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The Mirror of the Word and other works by C.E. White can be purchased on her website, cewhitebooks.com or on Amazon
“‘I also swore an oath to you and entered into a covenant with you so that you became mine,’ declares the Lord God.”
—Ezekiel 16:8
The Lord loves us far more than the most faithful spouse loves his wife or her husband. We are his, and he loves us perfectly.
Have you ever seen the sorrow brought about when the love of one spouse grows cold and they’ve begun seeking satisfaction elsewhere? Whether it’s to infidelity, hobbies, work, friends, or children, the committed spouse feels the sharp knife of sadness and betrayal at the wedge now between them.
They may even become angry and jealous toward the thing that’s taken their place. The Lord is the same. When our love strays and we begin seeking satisfaction elsewhere, he is jealous for us, angry at the thing that has stolen our affection, and he mourns the distance between us.
Later in this chapter, it says, “But you trusted in your beauty” (Ezekiel 16:15). Instead of trusting the Lord with our lives and remaining faithful to him, we too often begin trusting in our own innate abilities—the very things he gave us—to gain short–term fulfillment. We stray from the real love, intimate relationship, and foundation we have in him to the false love of this world and the sinking sand of our own abilities.
This grieves him, as it would grieve a person whose spouse prefers the fake, selfish satisfaction of pornography to the act of real, mutually selfless love with them.
Where are we trading the true love of God for the false love of this world? Let us put the temporary pleasure aside and build the lasting satisfaction that comes in a relationship built on the continual commitment that we are his.
The post MAY 4-Faithful Still appeared first on C. E. White.