The importance of respecting the partner (Part 2).

[Leonardo Von]

The importance of respecting the partner (Part 2).

We will find many people who: 

•    are stranger to our eyes, whether be in virtue of their gestures, their customs, their way of thinking or feeling the things, and so forth. Of course, it is very difficult to take in someone at home. This means to get out of our routine.
Many times, we repine when someone try to submit us to serfdom. Nevertheless, nobody is so good to enslave us than ourselves. We plaster ourselves in a comfort zone (regardless if it is good or evil) and, when someone endanger it, they are slighted.
Nonetheless, why do we persist on our projects and dreams if, in the end, all of us only will take with us the relationships that we construct inside us, as well as the actions that we take in order to create, preserve and destroy these relationships.
Furthermore, if we insist on not allowing anything strange to penetrate in us and being part of us, we will finish alone. 
So, let’s ask to Jesus if what is antic belongs to Him. Perhaps, the only thing that the stranger wants is to find harbor in our life.
Of course, that we are afraid of being hurt. Notwithstanding, if someone were able to hurt us, we will never be in peace, inasmuch as everyone is flimsy and sinner. Or we seek in Christ His supernatural oil of joy (Heb 1:9) that make us happy regardless the circumstances (see Act 5:40,41; 16.22-25) or we will end up like a turtle inside the hull of diffidence and fear;
•    are naked. Many of them pines for being clothed with the acts of justice of the saints (Rev 19:8), but we, rather, have the petulance of taking off the little that they have;
•    are sick, but we didn’t find time to communicate to them some Jesus’ gift (Rom 1:11). Instead of staying in the Creator’s council (Jr 23:22) and cause people to hear His words and turn from their evil way and from the evil of their doings, we prefer to cajole them saying that Jesus love them and will help them. This won’t take place while they cultivate a hidden sin and bad demeanor.
The true friends use their Sword (Jesus’ Word – Jer 48:10) in order to hurt the sin in their lives and, thus, being truly healed and saved (Job 5:18). 
Who doesn’t preach against the sin is putting burdens of falsehood on the back of people and causing them to be ousted of Jesus’ presence (Lam 2:14).
•    are in prison. And the worst is that many believers act like this toward them:
o    “For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they lure through the lusts of the flesh, by unbridled lust, the ones who were escaping from those who live in error; promising them liberty, they themselves are the slaves of corruption. For by whom anyone has been overcome, even to this one he has been enslaved.” (2Pe 2:18,19);
However, the right conduct is:
o    “in meekness instructing those who oppose, if perhaps God will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth, and that they awake out of the snare of the Devil, having been taken captive by him, so as to do the will of that one.” (2Ti 2:25,26).

Nevertheless, we need to identify Jesus in these lives. 

In the marriage, many times the partner don’t have:

•    The food of true knowledge;
•    The water of the true life (motivations);
•    The acquaintance with the concepts and values of Kingdom of the Heaven;
•    The apparel of the Kingdom of the Creator;
•    The spiritual health that make their mind sound (feelings, thoughts, dreams), their eyes good (Luke 11:33-36), their body sufficient sturdy to reinforce people around him/her (Eph 4:2; Col 3:13).
•    Freedom to do what is right and good before the Creator and before the men.

Nonetheless, our obligation is to allow Jesus to be, in our life:

•    The Bread of Life (John 6:35,48);
•    The Living Water (John 7:37-39);
•    The One who is one with the Father (John 10:30), outright familiarized with the Eternal Kingdom;
•    Our Justice (Jeremiah 33:16);
•    The One who heal us (Exodus 15:26);
•    The One whose Truth delivers us (John 8:32).

So, have a good day taking into consideration the limitations of your partner and being careful in order not to fall in sin (1Cor 10:12; Galatians 6:1).