Grace Through the Fog

I was looking up prayers on ways to win your husband over to Christ (mine wants to believe, but is the "Doubting Thomas" variety who has to see before he believes) and ended up reading an article on how to be submissive:

1 PETER 3 v 1- 2 Wives, in the same way be submissive to your husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, when they see the purity and reverence of your lives. NIV
Or
1 PETER 3v 1- 2 Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; while they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. KJV

Well, I learned something precious in this.  Not so much the submissive part...there's a lot of insight into this that I need first...but that I'm not here to change anyone else.  God is the only One who can change any of us, anyway.  All I can do is pray and live the life before my husband that Christ wants me to live.  Live it so my husband sees that you can be human, make mistakes, fall, and still be a Christian.  Live it so he wants the same thing/Person as I have.  Makes me think twice about some of the things I do or don't do.

You see, I haven't been to church in a long time.  I even read a book about not wanting to go to church anymore.  I thought it would be ok to just read the Word, which is on my Kindle, pray, and live the best I know how to live.  Come to find out, there isn't ever going to be the perfect church this side of heaven and we need one another.  I have gifts and talents that are being unused because I'm not fellowshipping with other believers and there are those out there who I need in my life.  We're a family and I've been absent from the dinner table.  Oh, how I need to be fed!

So, church it is.  And a lesson in humility.  All in one day.  Imagine that.  I CAN be teachable!  lol  I have a peace in my heart these days and I know it's because God is so near.  As near as my whispering voice in His ear. 


Most Assuredly Blessed,
Me