CHRISTIAN PARENTS of ESTRANGED ADULT CHILDREN Community Group
Estrangement makes it difficult to talk about with family, friends, neighbors and church members. Christians are NOT immune to broken families. Talk about your experiences with those who know how you feel and get positive support through your Christian faith...."In these last days difficult times will come, for men will be lovers of self...disobedient to parents,...
I signed up for the Worship Devotionals yesterday after GuelsMom posted such a good reading for us. Today I received my first message and as a "first" message, WOW - it really hit me (even though he refers to a marriage, it is still about loving someone and then them cruelly leaving). I really need to find something "good" out of my son leaving in an estrangement way.
I wanted to share this:
A Mess for Good by Max Lucado
Twenty years of marriage, three kids, and now he’s gone. Traded her in for a younger model. She told me her story, and we prayed. Then I said, “It won’t be painless or quick. But God will use this mess for good. With God’s help you’ll get through this.”
Remember Joseph? Genesis 37:4 says his brothers “hated him.” Far from home, they cast him into a pit, leaving him for dead. A murderous cover-up from the get go. Pits have no easy exit. Joseph’s story got worse before it got better. Yet in his explanation we find his inspiration: “You meant evil against me,” he said, “but God meant it for good..." The very acts intended to destroy God’s servant, turned out to strengthen him.
The same will be said about you. You will get through this! Max
I wanted to share this:
A Mess for Good by Max Lucado
Twenty years of marriage, three kids, and now he’s gone. Traded her in for a younger model. She told me her story, and we prayed. Then I said, “It won’t be painless or quick. But God will use this mess for good. With God’s help you’ll get through this.”
Remember Joseph? Genesis 37:4 says his brothers “hated him.” Far from home, they cast him into a pit, leaving him for dead. A murderous cover-up from the get go. Pits have no easy exit. Joseph’s story got worse before it got better. Yet in his explanation we find his inspiration: “You meant evil against me,” he said, “but God meant it for good..." The very acts intended to destroy God’s servant, turned out to strengthen him.
The same will be said about you. You will get through this! Max
It's happened to me many times and ED did it to her ex (July2011). Thanks for the "mess age" in the mess!
I listen to and have read many of Joyce Meyer's books and she is a preacher tells it like it is - truth not just love, comfort and prosperity. She preaches we only grow when we study God's Word - The Bible - not just read it, but actually study it. I love her. She is very honest about where she came from and her struggles.
I was studying the word for "son" or "children" in the Old Testament. The first time it is used is in Genesis 3:16... I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children.... I don't think God meant only the pain of childbirth. I think he meant the sorrow that would come to mothers because of the sin that was now in their children's lives. Think of the sorrow that Eve must have felt when she learned that her oldest son had murdered her youngest. Think of the sorrow that Rebekah must have felt when she watched her son Jacob leave camp because her other son Esau wanted to kill him. Think of how Naomi felt having lost both of her sons in Moab, or how Samson's mother must have felt when he insisted on marrying a Philistine woman after having been prepared from before birth to be a Nazarite. And, of course, think of how Mary felt watching her perfect son die on the cross for the sins of mankind. A sword truly pierced through her own soul.
I am believing that one day my son will finally bow his knee to Jesus Christ and quit his rebellion. But until that day I will suffer for him and pray ardently for his salvation for "in sorrow" I have brought him forth.