COMPLETE
OR FINISH (Part 2)
Adesina
Abegunde
HOW
COUPLES FINISH THEMSELVES
A beautiful Friday morning to you.
It is so amazing how
time flies, it is another Friday, and one more week has gone this year. We are
ending the 34th week, leaving us with just 18 more weeks in this Year 2016. May
the remaining 18 weeks bring you and all yours joy, peace, progress and
outstanding results in life in Jesus name.
I started this post
last week trying to open our eyes through a funny story, to the two major
reality camps of marriage. I hope your marriage is or will be in the “complete
camp”, so shall it be in Jesus name. My joy is that there is the possibility of
decamping and re-camping, so if you are in the “finish camp”, just decamp, but
if you are already in the “complete camp”, then make all efforts under God to
remain there.
To
be finished in marriage means;
1. that
a person becomes worse in marriage
2. the
reality of the person is far from the pictures he or she had before marriage. I
mean some people look promising and bright, only to marry and realize none
3. to
lose vital things in marriage, to lose things like joy, vision, passion,
dreams, purpose, zeal for God, ministry, brilliance, great ideas
There is a story of a
woman, a married one I suppose, in Luke 15: 8-10.
Luke 15:8-10 (AMP)
8 Or what woman, having ten [silver] drachmas [each one equal to a day’s wages], if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and look carefully and diligently until she finds it?
9 And when she has found it, she summons her [women] friends and neighbors, saying, Rejoice with me, for I have found the silver coin which I had lost.
10 Even so, I tell you, there is joy among and in the presence of the angels of God over one [especially] wicked person who repents (changes his mind for the better, heartily amending his ways, with abhorrence of his past sins).
8 Or what woman, having ten [silver] drachmas [each one equal to a day’s wages], if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and look carefully and diligently until she finds it?
9 And when she has found it, she summons her [women] friends and neighbors, saying, Rejoice with me, for I have found the silver coin which I had lost.
10 Even so, I tell you, there is joy among and in the presence of the angels of God over one [especially] wicked person who repents (changes his mind for the better, heartily amending his ways, with abhorrence of his past sins).
The ten silver coins,
among several interpretations, refers to part of the dowry in marital rites given
to the wife, in fact some women will make a hole on each and put a rope and
wear them. For the purpose of our lesson, it is a symbol of being married. The
woman was not satisfied with having nine left because nine is not ten, and if
care is not taken it will soon become eight, seven, six until it all finished.
It is just the same way a bunch of broom sticks gets lean, weak and useless.
For you to also see
that it is more than just a coin, the bible says the coin is equal to a day’s
wages, which is actually only enough to feed a person or a small family in a
day. But the bible says that when she found it, “she summons her [women]
friends and neighbors, saying, Rejoice with me, for I have found the silver
coin which I had lost.” I guess she will spend more than the value of the one
coin to have thrown that party. The coin was very valuable to her.
How many valuable
things have you lost in your relationship or your marriage? Is that
relationship finishing you or completing you?
Your valuables include
your walk with Jesus, quiet time, holiness, excellence, integrity, vision,
passion, joy, hopeand aspirations, vital relationships with mentors and
colleagues, intelligent information, zeal for impact, getting better,
realization of goals, dreams and so on.
Couples finish
themselves through:
Insensitivity,
Selfishness, Immoral lifestyle or infidelity, Deception, Rigidity or refusal to
change, Lack of vison and a sense of purpose, Uncontrolled anger, Lack of
personal development, Carelessness, Being clueless, Lack of evaluation,
Laziness to make the marriage work, Lack of an effective mentoring relationship
and Unforgiveness.
The woman in the
passage above got what she lost back by:
1.
the awareness that something is lost
2.
lighting a lamp: this means getting knowledge
and revelation from God’s Word
3.
sweeping the house: making efforts in
the right place and in the right way. Not giving up until what was lost is
found.
In case you feel you
have lost something, please discuss with God, your partner and possibly a mentor
who can guide you.
I pray for you as you
read this post that the LORD will restore all that you have lost in Jesus name.
Every torment of being
finished will cease from now on in Jesus name.
Every cause of your
marital dissatisfaction will be turn-around now for your good in Jesus name.
Tamar in Genesis 38 was
over-finished in her marriage and thought it was all finished for her, but
suddenly goodnews came to her, an idea of restoration. Therefore I declare,
today goodnews will enter you home.
Love, joy, happiness,
blessings, peace, progress, and lots more of good things will enter your home
in Jesus name.
Every lost glory is
restored to you in double portion in Jesus name.
Your marriage will
work. It will complete you.
It is well with you.
Shalom.
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