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By Frank Salerni
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Although, I may love to write, I must admit that in the midst of the pleasure it brings to me personally, and to my own creativity, it is a far cry from the result of reading.
Reading educates the stimuli for knowledge, but often bi-passes wisdom.
Wisdom comes from God, and the fear of Him.
I love my wife.
I often misread her.
It’s not that I want too; it’s just that as a man I think as a man. This is no excuse.
As a man of God, I need to love as a man of God. My pride gets in the way. My pride is like a dark veil that is constantly changing in order to camouflage wisdom, and shroud truth as knowledge.
The truth, in this case, is that she is a covert operation known as “the pastor’s wife.” She is not a second-class pastor, nor is she an ornamental figure set on the churches spiritual shelf; God calls her to ministry in the same way as I, with the same passion, and with the same need to reach out to God’s people. Therefore, she is a target. More than a target she is a shield for me as well as a foxhole at times.
When the enemy is conniving to reproach me, he often is attacking her. I am often blinded by my own selfish need to be on the front lines of ministry yet; she takes the bulk of the enemies fire more often than I realize.
How foolish I am to be called “teacher,” and still I have the need to be taught foundational truths. My wife is my first ministry, my friend, and my confidant. If this is starting to sound like an apology then I’m growing in God’s love. I must admit in my transparency; “Oh, what a foolish man that I am!”
If anyone ever argues with the logic that Satan can be good, let them know that he is good at one thing over all the others. He is paramount as the accuser of the brethren, the father of lies, yes, and even the lord of the flies.
In the anointing oil of our calling is a fly. Only prayer, and God’s mercy and grace will remove him. He is however, now exposed for what he is.
No longer will my love be introduced as, “the pastor’s wife,” she is more precious to God than that. She has a high calling, a much harder position than the average churchgoers, and one of the hardest positions to define. Instead of the enemy attacking her weaknesses, he undermines her strengths!
I admit although I may have sight, I read her blindly, as if by brail. My anger is quenched only by her forgiveness in our hope of answered prayer in this ministry of redemption.
“I know, my beloved wife, you read me like a book at times, but ask that you do not close me in the same way. You and I both agree that God is bigger than the monster called… accusation.”
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