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Important Additions to : Men Are Not From Mars And Women Are Not From Venus, They Are Both From The Planet Earth!
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The Lord has impressed upon my heart and my life how important a gentle and compassionate spirit truly is. I felt that this article would not be complete without the mention of this and that I needed to make a few other changes. I have put in bold letters the changes I have made.
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And I will not believe otherwise, until someone can show this to me in the Bible, where I base all truths.
What the Bible and the Spirit tell me is that we are influenced by the world, not by other planets.
We try so hard to be in the world, but not of the world and we just can’t help all the brainwashing that we get from family, friends, schools (where children spend most of their day), TV, computers, books and so forth and so on.
We are what we eat. We eat both the word of the world and some of us eat the Word of God.
So I looked at my life to see what food I was raised on:
1 To be successful in this world, you have to be physically handsome (men) or beautiful (women), physically strong and fit, rich, well educated in worldly knowledge, be self confident, true to your sex, etc.
2 Don’t worry about making any mistakes, Jesus has already taken care of your salvations as long as you believe in Him. No one told me that to believe in Him, means that you have made Him, Lord of your life.
3Jesus and the Bible have great lessons, but don’t try to understand the mysteries of the Bible, you will get so many different interpretations mixed in with your own, that you will be sure to be more confused after you try to sort through them all.
And then I entered into a marriage. We were both definitely brainwashed to be true to our own sex.
He was going to be the manly man and never share his most intimate thoughts from his heart, require his fleshly needs to be met, make all the money and save all the money, make all the important decisions.
I was going to be the feminine woman and share all my feelings, require my emotional needs to be met, stay home with the children, spend all the money and accept his decisions on important matters.
We were typical and all the typical problems arose. What we never knew was that we were this way, because we were brainwashed to be this way.
No one ever told us that God hates the proud and that He never told us to be proud (check the Greek word for pride more carefully in your different translations if you disagree). You will find no pride in God either.
But the world has told us to be proud. And it began with the original sin. It is called men’s liberation and it was man liberating himself from God. So from this one act we have men and women’s liberation from God and also each other.
The worst part of it all, is that we have done it to ourselves through our cultures, customs and yes even religions.
Parents have such a great fear that their boys will become homosexuals, that we have created emotionally handicapped men and emotionally frustrated women. We have created our own monsters. We have created men that are from Mars and women that are from Venus, instead of allowing them to be God's children from above, that were sent to live on the planet earth. Sent here to learn how to Love God and how to Love each other. The planet earth is the place, where we are allowed to make mistakes and to learn from them.
What the world has convinced men: It is not manly or safe to share your intimate thoughts or your emotions, men are better than women and men are never to use God given abilities, if these abilities show any signs of femininity.
What the world has convinced women: Men will never understand you, you are better than men, and you should seek out certain abilities (even though God did not give you these abilities), so that you can take the place of the men in your life, that you feel have failed you.
To top it all off, the world tells us to be self-sufficient.
God sent us a completely different message when He sent the Son of Man (the perfect Man) into the world.
The Perfect Man:
Jesus shared His most intimate thoughts with all that would listen to Him
Jesus showed His emotions and wept
Jesus showed us Agape Love (unconditional Love)
Jesus showed us that He did not consider Himself better than His bride and washed their feet
Jesus prepared food (both the Word and bread) and served it
Jesus was never self sufficient. He depended on God (His Father) for everything
Jesus never tried to rule over God (His Father) and always did and said the will of His Father
Jesus never gave us His own commandments, but the Commandments of His Father
Jesus won us over with His gentleness and compassion, not His wrath
Now I ask you, “Is this the way that Jesus showed that He Loved the church as men are to Love their wives?”
And I ask you again, “If all men treated their wives like this, do you think men would be emotionally handicapped and wives would be emotionally deprived any longer?”
God sent only a Last Adam, not a Last Eve. It all started with the one man, so God sent the one Man to end it and make all things right. Because God began with one man, so shall I begin with the man and not the woman.
Men, have you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord and perfect role model or do you prefer the worldly role model? Christ was willing to make the first move for His bride (He Loved His bride before she Loved or respected Him), are you willing to make the first move and Love (Agape) your wife before she Loves or even respects you? Are you trying to win your wife over with gentleness and compassion or trying control her with your wrath?
I write this last part to you men who have chosen to marry, not to condemn you, but that through Christ your Lord, you can have a more abundant life and marriage. The world promises a more abundant life, but the world always leaves us hungry and empty inside.
Women that have chosen to marry, also have their roles to play in this. Even if men don’t ever show Agape Love to you, Christ still expects you to show Agape Love to them. You are also expected to win your husband over with a gentle and compassionate spirit.
By Loving each other we are also Loving God.
Let us now go to our Lord in prayer:
Dear Lord Heavenly Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, what is Your will and what are Your thoughts on this matter? Please take out our hearts of stone and give us hearts of flesh, so that we will hear Your Word more clearly.
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