{"id":2255,"date":"2010-10-07T13:10:46","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T18:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=2255"},"modified":"2010-10-07T13:11:25","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T18:11:25","slug":"an-honest-glimpse-at-the-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=2255","title":{"rendered":"An honest glimpse of the battle"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a great morning reading in my all-time favorite devotional, My Utmost for His Highest<\/a> by Oswald Chambers. (sidenote: I like the way my book reads because it’s an updated edition, but the truth is still the same.)\u00a0 Beautiful, powerful words from 2 Corinthians 5:21…<\/p>\n

God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us so that we might be the righteousness of God.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Love that.\u00a0 What a glorious thought!\u00a0 It was a great way to start my day.<\/p>\n

Then Brian and I got in an argument over something stupid.\u00a0 I snapped, he snapped… you know how it goes.\u00a0 And before I knew it, I went from being clothed in the righteousness of God to my same old sinful self.\u00a0 And I’ve been fighting a bad mood all morning thinking of how quickly the conversion from Spirit-filled to self-filled happens.\u00a0 It’s heart-breaking.<\/p>\n

Brian and I are supposed to go out to dinner this evening, and Grandma Beverly is keeping the kids. And instead of looking forward to it, I’m finding excuses that we’ve got too much to do, that we won’t be in the mood to appreciate it.<\/p>\n

And the enemy is loving it.\u00a0 He’s watching and loving the fact that he snuck into my Spirit-filled morning and found a weakness.\u00a0 And now he’s doing everything he can to use the splinter of the morning’s argument to pull us apart.\u00a0 There’s nothing he’d like more than to see the God’s sacred union of marriage be weakened.\u00a0 The little splinters add up, and before you know it, the enemy is rejoicing at the rift he’s caused.<\/p>\n

So gosh darn it, we’re going out tonight, and we’re gonna like it!\u00a0 We’re going to take our gift card, have an awesome dinner, enjoy being together, and pull ourselves closer together.\u00a0 We’ll forgive and\u00a0 heal, and claim the victory for the One who called us to these verses 7 years ago:<\/p>\n

Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. (Colossians 3:12-14)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had a great morning reading in my all-time favorite devotional, My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers. (sidenote: I like the way my book reads because it’s an updated edition, but the truth is still the same.)\u00a0 Beautiful, powerful words from 2 Corinthians 5:21… God made Him who had no sin to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[57],"tags":[18,135],"class_list":["post-2255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thinking","tag-inspirational","tag-marriage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkzLf-An","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2257,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions\/2257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}