Seeking for truth...
Luke 9:37-40, "The next day, when they came down from the mountain, a large crowd met Him. (Jesus) Just then a man from the crowd cried out, "Teacher, I beg You to look at my son, because he's my only child. Often a spirit seizes him; suddenly he shrieks, and it throws him into convulsions until he foams at the mouth; wounding him, it hardly ever leaves him. I begged your disciples to drive it out, but they couldn't."
There are a lot of what I like to call "spiritual yum-yums" in this passage. What I would like to do is taste just a few.
We have endeavored in the project to look a marriage through spiritual eyes. We have asked the question, "What if" a lot. When we reach a certain point in situations, especially situations that are beyond our control we are more willing to entertain that question. Why? Because we have tried all the other options. Only to find ourselves in the same state with the same willingness to change.
Many of our marriages / relationships are in the same state. We want them to change, we want them to be better, but... This is where we get into trouble. For the most part we can't make sense of the situation; "I love you, but," "I want to be with you, but." So we keep doing the same thing again and again and again and again and... well you get the picture.
In Luke 9, we see a father who is pushing through the crowd vocally. What was he doing? According to the bible he was seeking truth. We find a man who has been in a continual cycle of doing the same thing over and over again, hoping for different results. In verse 39, he admits that a spirit was seizing his son "often." This means that this father repeatedly dealt with problem. Althought he is has a problematic relationship that is has exhausted all human remedy, his next action catches the eye of the Holy Spirit. He looks for truth. He goes beyond what is not working to seek what will work.
Please notice the importance in this. This father does not continue to fight with his son, instead he starts to fight for his son. Let that soak in.
He does not settle with status quo. He does not accept that he has to be frustrated in this relationship. He is not resolving to the "as good as it gets" mentality. He does something that defeats the odds, he begins to fight for the relationship.
What he is seeking is someone who can help him. That someone just so happens to be Jesus. But the reality that he even refuse to let the unclean cycle dictate his relationship with his son, was a monumental moment.
You see, most of us never attempt this. Most us have believed the lie that nothing will change. Most of us are to busy fighting with the wrong enemy, we never see the real one. Most of us say we are too tire to fight anymore, either with or for. So we have accepted defeat. We throw in the towel and walk away taking our unclean relationship with us.
It maybe time to see the help of someone who can find the answers.
Hiring the Privite investigator
Have you ever watched a PI show? There have been reality shows based on this. Ususally there is the fear of an affair that leads to someone hiring a private investigator. There was actually a show in which a guy and a camera crew would literally confront the person or people with video evidence of the affair. The reaction was always the same. The accused would become angry or even violent. Some things attacking the person and the crew. Why? Because they had been exposed. A light of truth was turned on.
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