Marriage Sabotage To An End

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Marriage Sabotage To An End

by Carl Corser

How many marriages have been destroyed simply Those issues are still unresolved if we pick them up to because people have not properly resolved issues carry them with us as we leave the altar. Doesn’t that in their lives, commonly called baggage? What is baggage get quite heavy to lug around all the time? If we baggage? How does it affect our marital relationships? If continue doing the same things all the time, can we not you stop and open your life’s bag and pilfer through it, what expect the same old results? would you discover? How full is it? We need to seek the Lord and allow Him to help us in

There’s a saying commonly referenced to when our unresolved issues. We need to open our hearts to receive discussing marriage: “They’re bringing a lot of baggage into God’s healing and lay aside all our unresolved issues which their new marriage.” You haven’t heard this before, have you? Why is this so common? Is it not the fact that issues that caused the previous relationship to fail were not recognized or accepted and resolved?

How many people today enter into another relationship shortly after the dissolving of the previous one without resolving the causes of their failure? This common baggage problem does not just involve marriages. It also includes our social relationships. Any unresolved issues in our lives will affect the success of our marriage. They will sooner or later surface and sabotage the present relationship we are developing. Whose desire is it to destroy all relationships? Doesn’t he make it so easy and convenient to open our life’s bag of stuff and dig something out of it and sabotage our relationship will eventually sabotage our marriage. Seek the Lord and with the possibility of permanent injury? Why do we find adopt His changes, and in time, your marital relationship it so difficult to resolve so many issues from our past? Why will change for the better. do we make it so easy for Satan to use those issues against Be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. us, thus continuing our relationship failure cycle? This Peace will return to your marriage. You don’t have to cycle will continue the rest of our lives if we fail to resolve continue to carry your relationship baggage any further. baggage issues. Baggage, baggage, baggage. Stop! Resolve it! Forgiveness matters! God intended for our

It’s no wonder the Bible says it’s so important that lives to be simple and easy, not burdensome, filled with pain we need to lay aside every weight and sin that so easily and suffering. Isn’t His yoke easy and His burden light to besets us. Please notice that the Bible does not say that carry? Don’t allow Satan to trick you into reaching into your everything we carry with us in life is sin: absolutely the bag of stuff for something to sabotage your marriage. Isn’t it contrary. It becomes needless pain and suffering that we worth fighting for to have a healthy marriage? bear in our lives. Blessings and peace be unto you as you begin to

How many times have you reached into your baggage evaluate all the relationships in your life. and retrieved something and sabotaged your relationship? 42 // September 2020 Are we not supposed to take our burdens and unresolved issues to the Lord in prayer and leave them in His care? About The Author Carl Corser is an ordained bishop, serves as president of the Gideons Cleveland North Camp, board of directors and chaplin of the Peach State Antique Tractor Club, and owner of Corser Enterprises (roll- off dumpsters, sheet metal and welding shop, and home renovation).

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