Time

We know that many of our readers are dealing with a spouse that has left or are facing divorce very soon.  You need to understand that standing for our marriages is not limited to time or seemingly inevitable circumstances.

We serve a God that is not limited to time and space but can move forward and back through every dimension as if they were all present at the same time.  Time, space, future, and past are all currently available to God as areas in which He can move about in.

During our crisis period, Josh was out of the home for around 3 months.  That was a part of OUR timeline.  Don't get lost or confused if something doesn't happen in your situation within those parameters.  To use our timeline as a basis for your stance will only cause frustration if it takes longer; pride if it happens in a shorter period.

And you can still stand if you do wind up divorced.  In the eyes of God, the covenant remains the covenant regardless of our decisions around it.  Our choices in a moment of weakness are not able to change the plans of God if we are willing to turn back to Him.  We are not so great and mighty that our momentary existence will alter the plans of an eternal God.

To illustrate this point, we'll share with you about a couple we know of.  To make a long story short, this couple had been divorced for 2 years.  He was living with another woman but his wife would not stop praying for him and standing for their marriage.  One day he stopped by to ask his then ex-wife to stop praying for him.  She said no and he asked why.  She believed in what God could do.  That same day, on her lunch break, they got remarried.  He called the other woman and told her he was not coming back again.

Your situation may not go according to the timeline that you think it should.  However, when you serve a God that can do (and will do) impossibilities, time is not an obstacle or hindrance.  You may have to stand longer than expected.  You might have everything restored back to you in a lunch break.  Don't weaken your stance by limiting it to a certain timeline.

Josh and Serena