What Are You Going To Do With What Has Happened?

There are times in a believer's life that rock us to our very core.Times when you know, without Christ, you could not make it even an hour, much less another day. Betrayal by your spouse is one of those times. When your life and family are ripped apart by the selfish sin of adultry, it is a pain worse than death.

• Peace doesn't flood the heart of a woman whose husband has chosen to forsake her for another.
• Peace doesn't flood the heart of a woman who hears her husband matter-of-factly saying he is moving on and that she should too. How do you reconcile this monster with the man who just a week earlier was professing his undying love to you! 
• Peace doesn't flood the heart of a woman when she learns a woman she didn't even know existed had already replaced her in her husband's heart and in his life.  
• Peace doesn't flood the heart of a woman who is told by her husband that he is too broke to honor his financial agreement to her right now. Especially when the reason he is broke is because he has been taking his mistress on extravagant vacations every month.
• Peace does not flood the heart of a woman when she learned her husband, who claimed to be too busy to get away for a planned family vacation, chose to sneak away with his mistress.
• Peace does not flood the heart of a woman whose husband claimed to love his family but now says it was a mistake from the beginning.
• Peace does not flood the heart of a woman who shared her life with a man who is openly, publicly and unapologetically flaunting his adultery with a woman who is also married.
• Peace does not flood the heart of a woman when her husband has turned their sacred covenant of marriage into a freak show worthy of an episode on Jerry Springer.

So, how can a woman (who would rather run away from the scandalous mess her life has become) stand strong in her faith and flood her heart with peace? By taking her broken heart, the betrayal, the humiliation, and the depravity brought into her marriage covenant and she can lay it at the feet of Jesus. Jesus knows the pain of betrayal. Isaiah 53:3 - He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.

When we take our pain and lay it at the feet of Jesus, and allow him to ask us - What are you going to do with what has happened?

1. We can choose to surrender to the despair of our circumstances. But our pain would be for nothing.
2. We can choose NOT to surrender to despair - but choose to stand up and let the LORD minister to us in our hurts. Then our faith is proven as genuine. Remaining faithful through our trials is beautiful to the Father and he actually boasts about us. Imagine hearing the Father's voice saying, Isn't she beautiful?!! Choose wisely ... allow God to bring Beauty From Your Ashes.

If you have experienced the pain of betrayal - Keep the faith!
As co-heirs with Christ, we will receive a double portion for everything the enemy steals from us. This is but for a little while .... so stand strong and persevere! Take confidence in knowing who allowed this and why - allow God to use this for your good and for His glory. Pray and ask Him to have His way in you and to remove whatever is holding you back from complete freedom in Christ.

I don't know about you but, if I'm going to go through the pain anyway - I want it to be used for my good & for His Glory! Praying for you Beautiful Ones that God will bring Beauty from Your Ashes.