Come Hell or High Water

Have you felt attacked in your marriage recently?  Like more than normal?  We have.  Have you seen friends and family struggling with issues in their marriage?  Like more than normal?  We have.  It seems like these attacks have been coming in waves.  It is as if the enemy has given us break and a rest to lull us into a sense of complacency.  And then he lunges out with a full frontal assault on our marriages.

Even though it always catches us by surprise, it shouldn't.  We should have learned by now the enemy's modus opperandi.  We should know by now that whenever we (meaning all of us) begin to make some serious stands for the things that are close to the Father's heart the enemy HAS to retaliate.  He does so in the hopes that his attack will somehow discourage us from pursuing the path of a stander.

For some reason though, the enemy's attack does not always have the desired effect.  For some the attack will bring discouragement.  But, for others, it causes a holy indignation to settle deep within their souls.  Something begins to stir up the embers of righteousness that may have set dormant for a long time.  Something inside the stander begins to rise up and will not be silent.  You see, for some the attack will cause them to be even more determined in their position.  The fact that someone...anyone...wants to destroy what God has given and entrusted to them will be one of the motivating factors to hold their position...come hell or high water.

We see this sort of thing happening in Jesus when He entered the temple and saw it filled with people turning the worship of God into a business venture.  He walked in and fashioned a whip and begin to overturn the tables of the moneychangers.  His reason was that God had given Him a zeal for the Lord's house.  The enemy was corrupting that which was to be holy.  And Jesus would not sit idly by and watch it happen.

This is the place where we need to come to.  We can allow the attacks of the enemy to discourage us and cause us to lose our footing.  Or we can allow those same struggles and frustrations to solidify our position and make us more determined to see the move of God in an otherwise God-forsaken situation.  We need to find the zeal for our marriage and be willing to do whatever we must to hold on to that which God has placed within our grasp.

It's up to us.  Are we going to buckle beneath the attack of the enemy?  Or will we hunker down and hold on without giving up ground? 

Josh and Serena