Beauty for Ashes, Anna’s Testimony
My husband and I met at Bible school and had much in common, including both being from Maine. Our class scripture was Luke 4:18-19, “The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners.” Both of us felt a call to evangelism and this scripture meant a lot to us. We fell quickly in love and wasted no time before we became engaged. I knew about his past and how God had delivered him from drugs, alcohol and pornography. He told me about his struggle with lust, but I naively moved forward in our relationship with high hopes. Before long, we began to struggle with staying pure in our relationship physically and we fell in...
Forgiveness is the Key
Some times it is easy for us wives to say about our husbands, “how could they struggle with porn and all that filth?” We get disgusted with their out of controlled desires and wonder why they just don’t get it together. All the while, there can be a huge log in our own eye the entire time we are trying to remove the splinter from theirs. Why does it seem we have no patience or compassion when it comes to this sin? When we are hurt over something we hate to think we could do something as ugly as that, but in fact we are all capable of the same thing and the sin of self-righteousness is just as much a stench to God as porn. We seem to forget about the emotional affairs of the mind, or the fantasies we secretly imagine, the “what if I had...