Sunday, February 8, 2009

When everything changes

Look at the time on my watch. I took this photo on August 16, 2008. At 1:55pm CST. That was a Saturday. Little did I know that with in the next 12 hours a pivotal moment in my life was going to happen.
I know there was a reason God wanted me to take a photo of my watch on this day. It was a moment that would only happen once in my life, making a choice at a fork in the roadway of destiny.

In the next 14 hours I fought, with God at my side, against all things out to destroy my marriage. I had built a wall of sin that had divided our lives. Distrust. Dishonesty. Disloyalty. No matter what I said, no matter what I did, this wasn't a wall that I could climb over, crawl under, or push through. I called God for his help and it was then I realized that it wasn't a fight that I could win. God told me I had to surrender my weakness to him and he would take care of the rest. 10 hour after the time this photo was taken I turned my life over to Jesus and the pain of my sins were no more.

Over the next 4 hours I knelt next to my wife holding her hand while I prayed for my marriage to be saved. I know God was there because the weight of my sin was no more. I could feel a new purpose in my life. It was if God was pulling me through a very real fire that couldn't touch me. It was there that I was standing in the hands of a living God.

At 6 am my wife woke up and I broke open my soul to her revealing the very core of my heart. I humbled myself to her and laid every bit of my being on the line for one the final time. God stood there with us and healed our pain and suffering in the blink of an eye.

Thank you God.

1 comment:

  1. I have debated commenting on this post. I am glad you were able to work things out with your wife. I have found good communication is the key to any successful relationship. I have been through a similar situation myself but the outcome was the opposite.

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