Barbed Wire That Hurts

Life, just as sharp as barbed wire, can cut into our very souls when we least expect it. I once couldn't wait for my fairy tale life to begin. And that is what it turned out to be.

I was getting married, and it was going to be so much fun. Almost like playing house which I had done when I was younger.

So I got married, and in hardly any time, I ran right into that barbed wire.

Is that you? Have you run into it too? Well if not, most likely at some point-you will.

There are many kinds of it, sad to say. Drug abuse, too much debt, loss of a job, divorce and yes even the things that we think are going to be good things, can jab us. Mine was marrying someone that was becoming an alcoholic as we said our wedding vows.

So what do we do when we run into those painful wires?

Well, there is usually not a cut and dry answer that is going to suddenly set us free. Because we do make our own messes and when we get jabbed, it could stay there for a long time. Of course, the best way to not get jabbed, is to stay away from them (temptations) in the first place.

If caught in the middle of one of those fences, it may hold us in so deeply that we can't escape. There may be no place in the fence that is open to let us out. And so we have to either try to craw under it, or go over top of it, or just plain stay within it.

That is, unless we have Jesus in our lives.

No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful and he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will provide a way of escape, so that you can stand up under it. I Corinthians 10:13.

He doesn't tempt us, and he doesn't let us be tempted beyond what we can do that would break us down and keep us inside that fence we have allowed to close us in.

For sure life is hard. Sometimes we do allow temptations to do the things that do not please him. But if he allows it, he also provide a way in which we can get out. We still might have climb up and go over. We might have to do what I felt like I was doing during the years my husband drank, and craw on my belly to get out. And in so doing, we can get jabbed and stuck again and again. And it can hurt. But there are always lessons that God wants to teach us. And one of them is that he is faithful, and when the time is right, he will get us safely out. I know that, because he did it for me. After about 15 years of living with a husband that drank, he provided us with the escape from that kind of life, and my husband has not touched a drop since. As of January 15th he will celebrate 35 years of sobriety. How awesome is that! How great is our God!

Life wasn't miraculously easy after he got sober. But what was miraculous was the work God did in us to get to the point that the pain of spikes that we had felt jabbing us, have long since gone away. Oh, we have our days. Believe me. But life is so much better on this side of it.

If you feel you are stuck in something you can't get out of and are hurting because you can't escape from it, take heart. There is always hope and Jesus wants to provide your own way of escape. If he said it, believe it. He did it for us. He can do it for you!

Hello Friends. Thanks for coming by today. God bless you and have a wonderful day. Until next time....