I'm getting a divorce....

Yes, you read the blog title correctly.  I am getting a divorce.  It has been a long, hard struggle, with many ups and downs, but the time has come and the decision has been made...I am moving forward into freedom.

Now, before some of you pick up the phone to call me or jump on Facebook to see if I've changed my relationship status, and before others of you come running over to my house to try to talk me out of getting a divorce, let me explain.  If, after my explanation, you still want to call, please do...I would love to hear from you.

I'm divorcing all the things that I have been married to for years, and some, for decades.  Somewhere along the journey of life, I came into a "loving" agreement with fear, anxiety, mistrust, and doubt.  Daily, on many levels and in many ways, I heartily agreed with, partnered with, communicated with, and united myself with these unworthy partners, who brought nothing but compromise and destruction into my life.  So, today, I am getting a divorce.

You see, being 'married' to fear has permitted the tentacles of all of fears' sisters and brothers to grab on to parts of my soul and even my body, with the goal of enrapturing me with their deception and lies...promising great things and delivering nothing.  So, I'm divorcing fear, and in doing so, divorcing all of these other manipulative minions that will no longer be given access to my life, my heart, my mind, my well-being or anything else in my life.  

The terms of my divorce are non-negotiable:  no longer will I be bound because "It is for freedom that Christ has set me free!"  (Galatians 5:1)  So I am standing firm and will no longer be enslaved by the aforementioned things.  No longer will fear of man enslave me and cause me to say that something is "ok" when it clearly stands against the beauty of God's created order.  Therefore, my divorce means that the acts of the flesh are cut off from me:  sexual immorality (every form that God's Word says is wrong is wrong), impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies and the like. (Galatians 5:19-21)

My divorce is final.  Please do not try to convince me otherwise. The only thing being wedded to the aforementioned minions has brought is twisted thinking, confusion, compromise, misguided decisions, and death to my very soul.  Please don't worry about me...you see, my divorce is bringing me freedom.  

Now I can walk in the fruit of the Spirit:  LOVE, JOY, PEACE, PATIENCE, KINDNESS, GOODNESS, FAITHFULNESS, GENTLENESS AND SELF-CONTROL. (Galatians 5:22-23)

In this month of Adar, I am CELEBRATING this divorce, the ending of being unequally yoked to fear, anxiety, mistrust and doubt.  I am FREE and my divorce papers have been signed in the blood of Jesus.  

Now, who wants to call me and try to talk me out of my divorce?  By the way, Paul and I are happily married, and each day, we delve deeper into the joys and rewards of marital bliss, centered on Jesus!