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Kat:
Hi Beth,
I think your dream reflects the turmoil in your life, because you are struggling with the spiritual and thinking of it as the physical. You have a physical relationship with your husband, but a spiritual relationship/marriage with Christ. You are confusing this as being the same time. But these are two different things and you have to understand to be married to Christ does not necassarily mean you have to leave you physical husband.
1Co 7:13 And a woman who has a husband who does not believe, if he is willing to live with her, let her not divorce him.
v. 14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
You are stressing out over what will happen when you tell your husband that you believe as you do. But you should not be worried about what you only think might happen. Take things one step at a time and trust God will work this out for you.
Mat 6:33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
v. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
mercy, peace and love
Kat
ez2u:
Kat yes this is what i perceived as i read the dream. I believe you hit it on the nail peggy
bambam:
I think that I did a bad job explaining what I thought my dream meant. In my dream-my husband is my first love-or Christ, and the man trying to woo me, who seemed do good and be kind and gentlemanly, is the so-called "church" of today with it's bells and whistles. The point I was trying to get to was that I have struggled for a long time with trusting what I have learned at Bibletruths because my church was so blessed, and good and kind and loving etc. I couldn't understand how it could be bad. But no matter how great a man sounds, it is never okay for him to take a woman away from her first husband-this is in the physical realm. In the spiritual realm-no matter how good a religious organization sounds it is never okay to take a person away from Christ. Does this make sense. I think that mg wrote some scriptures from proverbs about the adulterous woman that help.
Kat and others, I AM struggling in my heart with all this. I am very anxious, but I am trying not to worry about it. It will happen when it happens. I could walk away from my church tomorrow if it were not for my dear husband, but I am just waiting this out. Thank you for your encouragement everyone! It does seem like I have knots in my heart, and in my stomache-sometimes I think, "What is wrong with me??" Well, I am so glad to be here at least!
Love to you all.
Beth
mharrell08:
--- Quote from: bambam on June 16, 2009, 11:41:07 PM --- But no matter how great a man sounds, it is never okay for him to take a woman away from her first husband-this is in the physical realm. In the spiritual realm-no matter how good a religious organization sounds it is never okay to take a person away from Christ. Does this make sense. I think that mg wrote some scriptures from proverbs about the adulterous woman that help.
--- End quote ---
Hello Beth,
I don't want to come across as a 'dream interpreter' or whatever, but I discussed this with Kat offline before either of us posted and will try to explain.
First of all, this has nothing to do with anything physical or the flesh but with the spirit...you keep mixing the two in your comments, that is confusion.
1 Cor 14:33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace...
Second, this is not 'the church' wooing you from your husband, seeing that your husband already is in DEEP with the church.
God likens being reconciled unto Him to marriage...not in any physical sense, but in spirit...being One. The gentleman in your dream wants to be 'one' with you as God wants to. Like I stated before, it is NOT a sin to worship the Lord before your husband. You actually HONOR your husband by worshipping the Lord in spirit and truth.
Your dream has many symbols...(1) you going to a 'Christian church' shows that you are looking for this 'gentleman' in the wrong place as that is Satan's throne, not the Lord's...he only walks in the midst [http://bible-truths.com/lake10.html], (2) the gentleman went to the Buddist temple, NOT because he practices Buddha, but as a symbol that he looks for you in paganism, aka THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. He looked for you there because that is where you dwell, in your heart. You going to the 'Christian church' shows that you still look to your hope in the wrong place...the gentlemen went to where you actually have hope in...in symbolism.
Basically, the dream had nothing to do with NOT serving the Lord, but in fact, the Lord showing you that you are to worship Him and be one with Him even in conflict of your husband's views.
Matt 10:34-36 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Mark 10:29-31 And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life. But many that are first shall be last; and the last first.
Luke 14:26-27 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.
You can serve the Lord and have Him first in your life AND still be a loving and caring wife...these 2 things are not to be exclusive in your present circumstances.
This is something that myself and many other members have been and still are dealing with...put your trust in Him, He will show you how to walk and bear your cross in spite of an unbelieving spouse. It's not going to be overnight, but the Lord works in increments...on His time, which is perfect.
Hope this helps,
Marques
bambam:
Marques,
Thank you-I think I understand what you are saying. I did not get the same idea as you did from my dream. I thought the other man in my dream WAS the symbolism of religious practices of the day. They sound nice and act nice-but they only pull you away from Christ who wants to be one with you. I have a completely different take on it than you do-but what you say does make alot of sense. Either way I understand and realize that A) My church is just part of Babylon like every other religious organization, and B) Christ wants me to be one with Him. My husband really has nothing to do with all of it. It has to do with me coming out of "Her", Babylon, and being Christ's. Which is what I desire wholeheartedly. So what's stopping me-probably fear. I am afraid of what I will lose but daily realizing that it doesn't matter. None of the stuff that we do at my church matters a whole lot in the grand scheme of things. I still have trouble believing that even now as I type it. Nothing my church does is helping anyone spiritually speaking. It's really not the stuff we do that I am worried about losing, but the people I have come to love-including some of my best friends and family members. Anyways, I have a long way to go. Thanks for bearing with me.
trying to Get it right! ;)
Beth
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