God had a purpose to her pain. However, if you looked at the birth and death of Christ through the eyes of Mary the mom, it would be almost impossible to reconcile her sorrow with the goodness and perfect love of God. But that’s what happens when we solely use our human lens to view life. It’s from a tainted, emotional and “Hey, what about me – don’t you see me?” perspective. My son wasn’t being used as atonement for mankind’s sin, but I understood pain. There were waves of trials, surges of raw grief. I questioned, but as time went on my theology became based less on emotion and experience and more on the truth of God’s Word, I understood what was happening to me. I was being broken, molded, transformed, and sanctified. I became so desperate along the way that my sight slowly moved away from my circumstance, from my husband’s sin, to a steady gaze upon the Lord. There was a price for being willing to remain true to my vow. There is a price in following Christ. I realized that I must die, so that Christ might live in me. What that looked like in daily life was that I no longer looked for his “stashes”, I no longer argued back, accused, or pointed my self-righteous finger at him. I no longer attempted to coax him to change, because it wasn’t my job to change him. I no longer only saw the hurt he had caused our family or the pain he had caused me. I began to see the real issue…he was a lost and wounded man, desperate for the Lord, just as I was a wounded woman who desperately needed the Lord. - From the study, Do You See Me? Coming August 20th
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