I am going to report here the story of a husband, and I would like you to think about what this husband should do in this situation:

He got married in love with this woman, and they lived well for many years. He gave her everything; nothing was missing. He had a good character, faithful. And before they married, she had a much lower financial condition than his, but he gave her all the best.

But one day, the wife was bored, wanting something more, and got involved with her neighbour and cheated on her husband.

She brought the neighbour into the house and said: “I want to stay with him here, and I don’t want you anymore”. And even though the place was her husband’s, he left the house for her to live with her lover. He divorced her, gave her money and left them in the house.

At first, it was just love between the two. But after a while, the lover began to mistreat her. He would bring his friends home and take everything from her. The friends liked it and left all the mess for her to clean up after them. And she tried to help her lover, but he didn’t want to change. She was in serious debt.

7 years passed, and she decided to call her ex-husband, who waited for that call over time. And he went to visit her and was shocked by what he saw: the destroyed house, the ruined wife, thin, with tired eyes. But his biggest shock was what he heard when he asked her what had happened. And she told him, “If you hadn’t abandoned me, none of this would have happened to me.”

I ask you: was it the husband’s fault? What do you think this husband could do for his ex-wife?

If he loves her, he could say, “I’ll marry you again, and we’ll rebuild our lives.” But does it depend only on him? No. The woman needs to break up with her lover. She has to stop blaming her ex-husband, abandon this ingratitude and the behaviour of infidelity, humble herself and repent. And finally, say: “If you accept me back, I will be the best wife in the world”. But to say that honestly.

This case, in fact, is the story of Gideon (Judges 6, 7 and 8). The husband represents God, and the wife represents Gideon, the people or the human being. Just as the woman put her lover in her husband’s place and kicked him out of home, the people of Israel put other gods in God’s place and kicked Him out. And the new gods of Israel brought enemies into Israel who raided the earth. And the people of Israel still blamed God for all that, but in Gideon’s house, there was an altar for Baal. By the way, the word “Baal” means “husband”; that is, literally, Israel exchanged husbands and even blamed God for the miseries that had happened.

And this story repeats itself. God restores the person, and they choose other gods, betraying Him. How many people had a good life with God with peace, but they wanted more? It was like this wife who had everything and kept looking at her neighbour. Thus, many were okay with God but began to desire the world. “I want adventure, experiences; I want to enjoy.” And they exchanged their faithful husband for the rascal lover. This is the story of many people.

But God, as in the story of Gideon, in the first “phone call” that the people made, God answered. If you regret it and want a new life, He answers you. However, He needs you to break up with the lovers by tearing down the altar of Baal in your life, be accountable, repent, change your mentality, and leave your ingratitude. Then He can start a new story and do everything new. It’s what He wants, but it doesn’t depend on Him only.

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