Friday, November 11, 2005

A Spouse in Need........

At a recent meeting of my fellow philosophers, a question was brought up about what we would do if a this situation arose. The situation is that you notice your buddies spouse is messing around on him;do you tell him? Of course you can only be a percentage of sure unless your the one doing the messing around and then you would be 100 percent sure defeating the reason for speaking up. There was an element of uneasiness in the comments and most said to one degree or another that they would for sure say something otherwise leave it alone. To be sure, if your buddy found out that you knew he would probably be upset with you when he found out. I simply said in absence of extreme conditions I would not say a word which was not received very well. I have to give the benefit to the spouse because A) I don't know her very well. B) This matter is between husband and wife. C) it is none of my business. There is an element of trust between man and wife that no man or woman should interfere. The Spirit of God should be at the heart of Christian marriage. It binds the two into one and when problems occur and they do, the Spirit suffers. Communication of the heart has to occur or the marriage will die. Nothing I can say or do will repair the life of the Spirit. Truth be known the buddy has already felt the loss of chemistry long ago, his spouse was in the same boat. Feeding the soul is each person's responsibility and a spouse is responsible for helping the other side along not detouring them. It all begins with the Supper of the Lamb and we all need it now. Be faithful to God receive forgiveness for your sins and everything else will follow, something like a Shepard and his sheep.

1 Comments:

Blogger Chloe' Gardner said...

WOW! That's a really thought provoking post. For me, honestly, it would truly depend upon who it was. Then I would decide whether or not to tell. That's something that's so tough to decide to do one way or another. It may be one that's best left up to God to sort out... :0)

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