People tend to blame God for anything and everything that happens in their lives—whether it is good or bad. I cannot speak for Jehovah, but I am going to share what I believe. I believe that Jehovah God sends us warnings before He sends destruction.
I have someone that I deeply love. Her name is Maria. She is my sister from another mister. I have known her and her family for more than thirty-five years. I have been there for all four of her pregnancies. She has four daughters. They are all beautiful. They consider me their uncle, and I love them as if they were my own children.
Maria was married to Jose, and they have two children together. Well, they are no longer married, they have been divorced for at least fifteen years. Maria and I were talking the other night, and she began to say that God is the reason she is having a difficult time forgiving Jose.
Maria was once full of love. She kept God first and was a firm believer in Christ. She loved Jose with all her heart and was a very submissive wife. She took care of her husband, her children, her home, and kept God at the focal point of her marriage. I can say that I am a witness to this. But Jose—without speaking badly about him, because that is not my place—was a very good-looking man. He had many women who did not care that he was married, and he had several extra-marital affairs.
Maria told me that she prayed to God and asked Him to fix her marriage because she loved Jose. She wanted her marriage to work and feels that God did not listen to her cries. Maria is struggling to forgive Jose and is very bitter that her marriage did not work. Her focus is on Jose and the woman he chose to be with—who was once Maria’s own best friend. That betrayal cut her deeply.
Maria thinks that God is blessing the very people who betrayed her—the ones who killed her spirit and the ones who killed her purpose. Out of her pain, Maria ended up marrying Jose’s best friend, Adam, and had two children with him. Jose hates her for it. He feels that he was betrayed by his best friend.
I do not think Maria really loved Adam. I believe she was getting back at Jose and did not care anymore. But you must be careful when trying to get revenge. She was breaking up a marriage just like her best friend did to her. Adam was married himself. How can she say that she is any different? She cannot.
Now Maria is divorced once again, but this time it was not because of infidelity. It was because of loneliness. Although she was married to Adam, he stayed away from the home, spending his time at the casino. Maria is focused on herself and the pain she endured in abusive, mentally and physically draining relationships—but she forgets that she caused someone else pain herself.
Jehovah God is not finished with either of them. I cannot speak for God, because I am not God. But I explained to Maria my own situation. In my second marriage, God sent me warnings that I ignored. My second wife cheated on me several times and mistreated me when she was my girlfriend. Many times, my children were there too. But I ignored the signs because I could not see past my own human selfishness.
I even stepped outside of my marriage because I was not happy. Marriage is serious—it is an oath to God. Jehovah God showed me and revealed to me that my second wife was not good for me, and I married her anyway. That is not God’s fault. It was mine. The same with Maria. God sent signs that Jose was a womanizer, but she chose to marry him anyway. Jehovah God has given us free will. It is not His fault.
Jehovah God is forgiving. He is love, the characteristic that mankind has forgotten. We decide every moment of every day who we are and what we believe in. We all get a second chance every second that we are allowed to wake up.
For any reader out there, who may be reading this short story, know this: Jehovah God is not at fault. People tend to think, “Why does God allow bad things to happen to me?” How selfish. How arrogant are we—to think our feelings are the only ones that matter? We must think about what we say. It is bigger than us.
Jehovah God can destroy the world and start all over anytime that He chooses. Think about it. Lucifer was a beautiful angel who became vain and wanted the praises as though he were a god. Jehovah knows far more than we know. I believe that if Jehovah God destroys the world and starts over, then there will be a new devil to develop—because someone will say God did not allow us to see what He foretold. And then another spirit will begin to become evil and dark. History will repeat itself.
Jehovah God has a special place for us. We need to stay on His course.
Maria, my advice is this: do not give up on Jehovah God. Because we woke up today—a blessing that shows He has not given up on us. We opened our eyes today it is a blessing from the God of our salvation. That alone is proof that Jehovah God is with you, still patient with you and still offering you another chance.
Nothing good comes out of infidelity—heartache, pain, confusion, and chaos. No one is perfect, and no one is excused. Marriage is sacred. You cannot allow another to come between you and your spouse.
Reader, please take your marriage seriously and be committed to making it work—through both the good and the bad times.