Choose Your Kingdom Week 17: Weekly Recap

The Pharisees created so many rules about how a man could divorce his wife that it would appear that God was okay with divorce for any reason. They were content with looking good on the outside but would not look at the heart attitudes about marriage. So, Jesus set the record straight. Only marital unfaithfulness and abandonment were permissible reasons for a divorce. God hates divorce.  It ruins the symbolism of Christ’s love for His Bride, the Church. His desire is that, over time, marriage relationships would continually grow stronger and that sacrificial love and respect will create a bond that lasts.

Choose Your Kingdom Week 16: End of Week Encouragement

Social isolation is not good for the soul. Today, have some fun. Think about someone you have been missing and call them up. Get on Zoom or Google hangouts or Facetime, or some other platform, and play a game like Pictionary, or charades. Just have fun and laugh with someone you are socially distanced from right now.

Choose Your Kingdom Week 16: Midweek Miracle

In the Sermon on the Mount, we are reminded that adultery is a sin. During the social isolation of the current pandemic, it may be more difficult to have an adulterous affair, but to lust after someone in mind or heart is no better. It is a spiritual adultery of the heart. It doesn’t even have to be about another human being. It may be a hobby, or being a workaholic, the TV or internet that is causing your heart to grow hard and cold as you turn away from God. Instead, today, confess this before God and intentionally choose to turn back to the Lord by cutting off any relationship, any addictive behavior, any TV or computer activity that is causing your heart and mind and body to turn away from God.