January 15, 2012

• Fulfillment of the Promises of God

  On January 14, 2007, a Sunday, as I was preparing for another semester of classes, a promise of the Lord became fulfilled right after the Allegory of the Gospel of grace, an incident prophesied by God Himself to me -- that the world will preach me the gospel.  I was on the train and on my way to buy books for the semester and then I noticed a girl who caught my attention in the Spirit, somehow, I knew that something was familiar about her and I kept on looking at her to figure out why and how I knew her.  She surprised me by talking to me, asking me if the Coke Zero tastes like Coke.  I offered it to her, which she refused at first, but later accepted.

  There was another prophecy given to me by the Lord, "The one how leads you to me shall be your wife."  Because I eventually accepted Christ through this girl, I truly thought she would be my wife based on the prophecy given to me by God.  However, as time went on and as the church she attended came under divine discipline, God told me to leave.  The discipline was very severe with stitches for thumb, surgeries for shoulder, and a fractured vertebrae for the leadership. It was easy for me to leave because the person whom I thought would be my wife did not acknowledge that I was her husband - there was another prophecy, that God will join us together and He did not here, so she was not the one.

  At the [new] church that God led me to, I eventually did meet my wife.  Of all the years that she had been living and following God, she never heard God tell her who her husband is, but He eventually did directly and through saints gifted in prophecy (much in the same way that He told me).  God told her directly that I was her husband and we confirmed it.  There were many women who pointed to me to Christ, but none of them knew the deep secrets between God and me [the treasure chest] except my wife.  It was her who led me right back to my relationship with God because she knows secrets between God and me which only God can give to her.  At times, it feels as though she is right there in my relationship with God.

  So, today, I celebrate and remember how God worked through the girl on the train and used her to point me to the charity of His Son.  I celebrate that God is faithful to me even when I misinterpret Him. And through His grace, I eventually bumped into my wife who knows more deeply what it means to live the Christian life and to have a relationship with Christ.  My wife and I have been married ten months now and it is the best time of my life - life in grace just gets better and better and better as one continues to know God more and and more. Sure, we have our ups and downs and our arguments with one another, but we always remember that God brought us together by speaking to each of us directly - and through that faith, we know that nothing can divide us.

  And, God continues to lead us and speak to us both at the SAME time.  There are many decisions we need to make and we both have different opinions, but God speaks to us and guides us, saving us the process that others have gone through and the compromises that had to be made.  For us, it is simply, God wants us to do this or do that and we do it.  Not all things are confirmed, but enough things are confirmed where we both know that God united us and placed us together.

  Copyright 2012 by Christenstein

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