Love

"Love can change the heart of any man". This is the phrase, almost a promise, that was running through my head when I awoke this morning. I thought to myself how powerful love is...real love, God's love, God is love. Love is a commitment, a choice, a decision not an emotion, although we can feel loved. We can feel the emotions that lead us to love but this is why so many people are confused by love or have no stamina in their relationships. "I don't love you anymore", means I changed my mind, my commitment, my choice is not to love you anymore because my feelings have changed toward you. Something changed in me. Those are frightening words to hear in a relationship because its very hard to get things back to where they were. I'm not saying it can't be done for it is possible but it will take hard work and commitment from both parties to make it together. This is why relationships fail.


If people are not willing to lay down their lives for the ones they love, then they won't work hard at the relationships that are in trouble. Sometimes, depending upon the type of relationship, its best to walk away and let it die. Not all "relationships" are meant to continue. I've had friendships that ended for the best because it was a toxic relationship. I've experienced relationships that changed beyond any power of my own and the choice was not mine to walk away, therefore I had to accept it and let it go.


Marriage is a sacred thing, a covenant, which many of us do not fully understand the meaning of that word as God meant it to be, however, in today's world it is far too easy to get a divorce. I am so thankful that I have a marriage now that I hold sacred in my heart and am committed to. I am loved and I love. We both work at it, of course, I feel I work at it harder (women alway believe that and its usually true), but there was a time in my life that two failed marriages almost destroyed any faith or hope I might have in finding the love of my life. I had to grow up and maybe he did too -- then we met and are working at our marriage because we are committed to one another.


I am praying for my spouse because I believe the statement I heard in my mind this morning when I awoke. I know that God has the ability and power and desire to change us and not leave us as we are. "Love can change the heart of any man"


Char
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"There are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all" (1Corinthians 12:6). And it is God Himself Who assuredly promises to anyone who will take Him at His Word, "26 A NEW HEART WILL I GIVE YOU, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. 27 And I WILL PUT MY SPIRIT WITHIN YOU, and CAUSE you to walk in My Statutes, and ye shall KEEP My Judgments, and DO them" (Ezekiel 36:26-27).
http://www.whatsaiththescripture.com/Fellowship/God.Can.Change.A.Heart.html
And when it comes to man's impenitent heart, frozen in obstinacy, God has provided all that can possibly ever be provided to change that heart. "For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestin to be conformed to the Image of His Son" (Romans 8:29). But when one of the LORD's people knows how to plead the Promises of the Word of God as a mighty praying warrior, an intercessor, whether they be a spouse, a child, a friend, or even a stranger, bringing the name and destiny of a needy soul before the Father's Throne, with our Most Holy Advocate (1John 2:1) and Divine Intercessor (Romans 8:34)-- "Jesus Christ the Righteous" (1John 2:1)-- Himself, presenting the case in the Absolute Language of God's Own Word-- then "HE CANNOT DENY HIMSELF" (2Timothy 2:13). "The Words that I speak unto you I speak not of Myself:but the Father that dwelleth in Me,He doeth the Works"(John 14:10).