Eve Reborn

I have found that over the course of my married life, Satan has whispered in my ear some of the same things that were whispered in Eve’s ears in the Garden.  The serpent came to Eve and said, “God is withholding from you.  He doesn’t want you to be happy.  He’s trying to hold you back...”

Have any of you felt that way, like I have, when there’s some hobby I want to take up or commitment I want to make and my husband either says that he doesn’t think I should do it, or he won’t come out with enthusiasm or a verbal blessing for me to go forward, so then I know that he isn’t crazy about the idea.  

Then the little devil on my shoulder whispers, 

“He doesn’t care about you.” 

“He’s selfish”  

“He just wants you to spend your time at home, taking care of him.”  

“He’s going to hold you back like this forever.”  

Aren’t those the same things that Eve was thinking, maybe even about God?

Yeah, the things I have wanted to do.  I thank God that my husband hasn’t encouraged them to spare himself of my wrath.  I would be an exhausted, unbalanced woman whose husband and children may not right now be “rising up and calling me blessed”, because it probably would have led me down a road that would not have been God’s best, gone in body, mind and spirit.  

We must look at our husbands in the most positive light.  Any time one of those negative thoughts come in, we have to push it out and remind ourself that those are lies.  The same lies that women from the beginning of time have had to battle.  Our husbands love us more than anyone on earth and want everything that is in our best interest.  If the truth be known, your husband, many times, is God’s voice to help shape your life to be the very happiest and best it can be. 

Just like God was trying to do for Eve.