How to find the strength to stand for your marriage’s healing and generating enough faith to hold on is probably the question that I’m asked more than any other from standers. It’s because it is a real question that’s built on real fear of forever losing someone you’ve invested so much heart, love, time, energy and trust in. For many today, that love has been crushed. So, just how do you find strength?

First you have to determine where your strength is generated from. The Apostle Paul has insight to answer that question:

2 Corinthians 12:7-10 (NIV)

To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Our inability to know the future, or to know what to do next when our life seems to crumble around us is a natural one. Jesus asked that his cup pass from Him, Peter denied Jesus when forced to make a decision and Paul reminds us that it is in our own weakness that we are made strong.

Our strength does not come from our surroundings. We are not taught in God’s Word that what we see with our natural eyes is truth. They are merely facts. The truth is determined by forces outside of what we see. God is always working.

A wise man that meant a great deal to me once said to me “The truth is more important than the facts”. I stopped, debated him that the two were synonymous two which he smiled and encouraged me to think about it. As is my nature I began seeking to find the meaning to that puzzling statement asking those around me that all seemed to say “they mean the same thing”. But as I continued playing it through in my mind I found a greater meaning…truth is all encompassing. Facts make up truth, but truth is greater than facts alone. The facts said that Paul and Silas were in a prison that was locked and fully guarded. Truth said that yes, Paul and Silas were in prison, but God had the last word. Truth proved more important than the surrounding facts did once the doors were opened and they walked free.

Yes, the facts may say that your marriage cannot be saved, it is too far gone. But what does truth say? Truth says that “with God, all things are possible to him that believes”.

Do you stand or do you move on? You pray, you ask God for guidance and you listen, even through the storm. “Peace, be still” be may just around the corner.

God bless you this week. Be positive, be encouraged, and love like you’ve never loved before.

Seth

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