To Hell With This

When you are sharing your life with another person it can be easy to face situations where you feel like you want to throw in the towel and even assume an attitude of who cares what other people think  and say "to hell with this".  Yes, "to hell with this" we often say when something as simple as you  getting fed up or easily irritated with some of your spouses habits that early on you found adorable, but while sharing your life with them now makes you want to pull your hair out.  Or it can be more serious that like adultery, lies, emotional abuse, drug abuse or physical abuse.  A lot of you have said "to hell with this" at one time or another because that is just the answer that fills that hunger quicker in your marriage at the time versus taking it to God!

  

Imagine if we approached each argument and said "to God I go with this?  To God I go with this lustful thought, to God I go with this pornography, to God I go with this filthy mouth, to God I go with this affair, to God I go with my finances, to God I go with this anxiety, to God I go with this generational curse, to God I go with this business, to God I go with my children, to God I go with my spouse.

We are all sinners, there is no doubt about that.  Marriage doesn't come with lifetime guarantees, the enemy knows that.   The enemy also knows that God's plan for marriage is to display God's glory to all of creation.  In Ephesians 5:25 we get a glimpse of what a husband's love should look like and it's none other than a reflection of Christ. Love your wife as Christ loved the church.  There aren't enough words to describe how great that love is!  In Ephesians 5:24 it calls for wives to submit to their husbands in everything, this is perfect if your husband is submitted to living a Godly life but what if he is not? Therefore living you with the option of   "to hell with this", as an easier way out than going to God for answers.  

The Bible is clear in God's design for marriage and we learn as Christians that we need to be fully equipped to fight the battles that we are faced with. The enemy is  prowling around waiting for the perfect opportunity to come steal and destroy. Your job is to put the armor on every day. Ephesians 6:11.

Be encouraged to equip yourselves with scripture, prayer and worship daily, anticipate that the enemy wants to  use your shortcomings to divide you. He is the real  enemy you need to fight together and send him back to the hell he belongs to,  choose to take it to God over and over again.  That is how you win in marriage!