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Exodus 18:12-23

Message No. 0804 | Twitter @GodandUs | www.wisdom-speaks.ca

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Many years ago, I watched a movie by a popular christian evangelical ministry, titled ‘Busy, but Guilty.’ In it, a married woman was called to women ministry, and she was ministering both at home and abroad. She spent most nights preparing for one ministration or another, all to the neglect of the husband, who was also a minister, but who could no longer have any time with her. Sometimes she would travel without notifying him, and when they spoke on phone, she would say I miss you, I love you, but all these sweet words did not translate to time spent with him, because when she returned from ministration, she was either too tired or needed to prepare, pray, and fast for the next program. It did not matter how much the husband tried, there was no intimacy between them and there was hardly time to even chat.

 

One day, she was on a trip abroad, and Jesus appeared to her in her hotel room to deliver judgement. The woman always mounted the pulpit to praise her husband and to tell the congregation how she had always loved him and submitted to him, and to admonish other women to submit to their husbands also. When Jesus confronted her about her lies, she was shocked, but not only that, her family was in crisis back home, and God was intending to call her husband home to avoid him being embarrassed in a scandal the enemy was already planning.