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How do you tell a young happy
couple that they should NOT marry?
We said nothing and were too
embarrassed to say what we knew in our hearts.
“Mind your own business,”
some would say, and that is what we did.
Our friends from the prayer
room and Robert and I were asked to come to Patsy’s apartment and bless her
daughter and the young graduating student from the Bible College that we all
attended.
Immediately as we entered the
apartment, I knew something was wrong.
Seriously in the wrong!
I had met Patsy’s lovely
daughter when she graduated with the previous class. Moving in with her mother who attended the
year we were enrolled gave the daughter the attention of many young eligible
bachelors.
The mother selected a quiet
young man and invited him to dinner and he and the daughter began a friendship
Robert and I were not aware
of who the groom was to be. Our friends
seemed surprised.
We prayed a makeshift prayer
for them to have wisdom and excused ourselves to leave.
Out in front, our prayer room
friends asked me what the Lord had told me.
I said, “This marriage will end in disaster and I wish I was brave
enough to tell them so.”
Two years went by and we
decided to attend “Camp Meeting” in Tulsa.
There we saw the young lady in question with a short pudgy older man who
was carrying a large Bible.
She waved to us, and later we
heard only the insignificant details.
She had gone to work for this gentleman, decided her marriage to the
young boy was a mistake and now these two were married.
I could only lamely say
congratulations, but my heart ached for the hurt young man whose life was so
brutally messed up
Could the first marriage have
been prevented?
Probably not, because
what young couple want to listen to anyone telling them what they do NOT want
to hear.
After that, God has not been
so liberal with giving me revelation knowledge, and lately he only gives me “Need
to know” information.
Perhaps it is
better that way.
4 comments:
How sad the marriage ended so quickly but I doubt your advice would have been heeded or appreciated.
Wow. That is something to ponder. I too find myself just keeping my mouth shut these days. People never seem to listen anyway, but I hadn't thought of the responsibility before our Father. You have me thinking, Hazel.
You've got me thinking, too, over a similar situation.
It would be rare indeed if the couple would have listened to your warning. However, the Holy Spirit might have been telling them the same thing!
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