“How
much better to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding is to be
chosen rather than silver.” – Proverbs 16:16
One of my uncle, when he was young, he
got into bad habits and got addicted to it. Soon he got married. His wife (my
aunt) was one of the best women I had ever met. My uncle used to beat my aunt a
lot but yet she had never raised her voice against him. She just endured all the hardships with so much patience. Later they got two sons
but my uncle used to humiliate her at all times. Often I feel so pity for her
situation. Her parents knew what she was going through and so they hated my
uncle a lot.
Few months before my
uncle got terribly ill. When they went to a doctor, they came to know that his
liver was damaged because of excessive liquor usage. His condition grew worse
and so the doctors told that the only way for him to survive is to undergo
liver transplant.
They tried to get a
donor for him but could not find one. At last the doctors found that my aunt’s
liver was the perfect match for my uncle. So they told her that her husband will
live if she donates part of her liver.
As soon as this
information reached my aunt’s parents, they came to her so furiously and said, “It’s
better that he dies so that you can live peacefully in this world. So do not
say yes to the operation.”
As I said before my
uncle has great love for his wife but yet he had never shown her that. He always
love to be the dominant decision maker in everything. It’s true that he had not
treated my aunt well.
But then when all her
relations advised her not to donate her liver to her husband, she prayed and
said yes to the operation. Everyone around her was so angry at her but she went
through the painful process of operation with so much patience and calm for her
husband who was not that much loving to her. By God’s grace both of them were
alive now and they are living together in peace.
What if my aunt heeded
to the counsel of her parents and said no to the operation? If she had said no,
then by this time my uncle would not be alive. But yet she showed love and
compassion to her husband though he is not worthy of it. Now both of them were
together and she was happy that her husband is alive. She never ran away when her husband was in distress. That's the important thing we have to understand. She stayed with him and faced the situation along with him and also helped him.
You can very easily
love your spouse who is so loving to you and who is so good at everything. But
today I just want to place a question before you. Can you love your spouse with
her/his weakness though you feel right now that he/she is unworthy of your
love?
God wants you to love
your spouse at any cost. Bible says in Matthew
19:6, “So then, they are no
longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man
separate.”
It was God who has united you and He
wants you to stay together at all situations. If your spouse has any weakness,
do pray for them sincerely. God will answer your prayers. But do not decide to
go in separate ways. It is not God’s will or purpose in your life that you have
to go away from your spouse. God wants you to raise a generation for His glory.
So love your spouse and stay united.
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