lstgrps wrote:I am sorry about what you have been through. I have family dealing with the same thing. Fathers have almost no rights unless the wife is completely nuts.
Thanks for your concern. With your family member going through a similar thing, I know that you are really concerned about the pain divorces causes everyone.
But I use my experience with the system as a lead up to identifying the problem and proposing a solution. Solution first:
We have got to train up men and women who know HOW to love according to God's Truth. I wasn't trained in the Truth properly and neither was my ex. And this leads us to
Exodus 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; 6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.The bold in the Bible verse above means that sinful (iniquitous)fathers will naturally raise up sinful children. Also, ignorant fathers will raise up ignorant children. A lying father will likely have offspring who are liars, likewise for drunken fathers.... Now let's put in "churches" in place of "fathers."
visiting the iniquity of the churches upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;There! I have identified the problem. Churches have not been raising up men of God, and any attempt to do so is undermined by government schools and decadent society as a whole. We need a serious revival, but the churches in my area can't see themselves. They don't know that they need to do 2Chron. 7:14. They may have an inkling, but no one has the courage to lead, and perhaps no one has the ability to teach us (our churches) out of the mess we are in.
“For the heart of this people has grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing and their eyes have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their heart and turn, so that I should heal them.” Matt. 13:14-15
America's churches have grown dull. They have not the will to love virtue, wisdom, and justice, therefore how can we love our spouses and neighbors with virtue, wisdom, and justice? Without the will to love God, men lack the courage to stand against evil. "All it takes for evil to prevail is for Christians to do nothing..."
Russ