Welcome back to your course. I hope you are finding your time here beneficial.
So far, we’ve talked about how our hope and healing flow from the gospel of Jesus Christ. We follow Christ in humility, we suffer for a little while, and at the proper time, God lifts us, restores and strengthens us.
In this lesson, we will talk about what to do with all our feelings of pain while waiting on the Lord for our healing and the restoration of our marriage and how to receive the healing God has for us.
Sexual sin is uniquely hurtful and stirs up distressing thoughts in our minds because it touches us at the most intimate part of our lives. When I discovered my husband’s sexual impurity, it was as if someone had taken a knife, plunged it into my heart, and then poured fear, anger, dread, and immense sorrow into the open wound. I felt rejected; my spirit was crushed. I wondered, “Why is God letting my husband do these wicked things? What did I do to deserve this? How can a loving God allow this to happen?” It was a very dark time in my life.
Question 1. Are there any thoughts or feelings troubling your heart and mind today? Please share so that we can pray for you.
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As we saw in previous lessons, God understands what it is to have an unfaithful spouse. God made a covenant with His people, Israel, and they broke it in every way possible. For this reason, many of the books in the Old Testament talk about Israel’s unfaithfulness and God’s response to it.
The book of Isaiah is no exception, but like Hosea, Isaiah also sheds light on God’s plan of hope and restoration for His people. And it is in his book that we find the biblical foundation for our lesson today.
Please look with me at Isaiah 53:2-5, understanding that this passage, according to Acts 8:35, is speaking about Jesus Christ.
“He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. 3 He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.”
Question 2. As you read the description of Jesus in Isaiah 53, what stood out to you? Share your thoughts.
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