September 9 2011

Into the Depths

Reading: Proverbs 3:5, Trust in the LORD with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding.

Athletes do not always appreciate their coaches. Oh, a coach may give excellent instructions but he also must push his players to work hard and succeed. Michael Phelps once said, “My coach pushed me to the limits that I felt were beyond me. At times, I felt I was going to drown.” But, this athlete didn’t drown. Instead, he became an Olympic gold medalist… many times over again.

Many athletes in training soon discover that their commitment requires much more discipline that they bargained for. Can I talk to husbands for a minutes? To put it simply, marriage is a relationship for more difficult than we want it to be. It always turns out to be more than we bargained for. Marriage was meant to be a lifelong encounter that would be much more rigorous and demanding than anything we as men ever could have chosen, dreamed of, desired or invented on our own. Only marriage urges us into these deep and unknown waters.

For that is God’s very purpose for marriage; to get us out beyond our depth, out of the shadows of our insecurities and into deep personal encounters.
Let God join you in those depths. In Him the depths of your marriage relationship can be handled. You can grow more than you ever dreamed of. Ask God for His will to be done in your life and in your marriage.

Are you allowing God to push you to your limits or are you fighting God in areas that He is trying to stretch you?


How committed are you to the training of being a Christian and becoming Christ like? What can you do today to be committed to that training?
REVIEW

How was God training you today and how committed were you train through it?

Did you sense or see a difference in your day as you were determined to train to go deeper?