A Good Source of Vitamin C

I'm sitting here at the computer and looking at a can of Country Time Strawberry Lemonade.  On the side it says "A Good Source of Vitamin C".  It seems kind of strange to me that a manufactured drink could be a good source of vitamins for our health and wellness.  If your doctor asked you if you had been taking any vitamins would you say that you had been drinking this lemonade?  I doubt it.

If I was looking to get more vitamin C shouldn't I go and eat an orange or some other citrus fruit?  Why would I look to a man-made beverage CLAIMING to be a good source of vitamin C?  Because it is easier and more palatable to drink this chemical concoction than to do the work to be healthy.  This is the same as most of our approaches to marital conflict resolution or marital restoration.

Most of the time we (all of us are guilty of this at one time or another) look to some man-made system to fix the problems within our marriage instead of looking to the One who created marriage.  We read a book that says how to create an affair-proof marriage in x-amount of easy steps and expect everything to be hunky-dory.  When it doesn't work we want to blame God.  When in reality it was our own ignorance of the things of God that lead us astray.  We will read books, attend conferences, listen to sermons, or the like with the hope (in a man-made system) that THIS will fix all of our problems.

The truth is, friends, is that these systems, books, etc. will not work.  Yes, they may get us on the right path or open our eyes to something we may not have seen before but they are one man's concept that they have managed to get published.   Don't get me wrong; I think we need to have those book, conferences, and speakers.  But, for us to put our hope in their wisdom is to think that my stawberry lemonade is a better source of vitamin C than some all natural citrus fruit.

We must look to God.....ALONE!!!  He is the only One that has the wisdom, the truth, the grace, and everything else that we need to bring the resolution to the conflicts of our marriages and the restoration of what has been broken.  Nothing else will do what He can.  All the books written (even those written by Godly men and women) do not...CANNOT...hold a candle to the immeasurability of God and His Word.  All of man's wisdom, his thinking, his logic pales in comparison when held to the light of God's Word.

This is why we always try to tell you when something is our own opinion and what His Word says.  We (Josh and Serena) don't always like what His Word has to say because it makes us walk a tougher road.  Bu, we will always stand on what His Word says rather than our own opinions.  Our opinions can change as quickly as the wind shifts; His Word has never and will never change.  That's why we will ALWAYS point you back to the Word of God.  If you have read the Word and know what God's way is, please, don't ask us what we think about it.  We will always go back to God's Word.

If you take anything away from our time spent here on this site, it's this:  God's way is the ONLY way to REAL, TRUE restoration.  Everything else is just a good source of vitamin C.

Josh and Serena