Closer to God, bf needs Christ & sin conquering, & kids faq helps
Q: I have felt an urge for the past year to start my journey to become closer to God… it’s a pull that brings me to tears when I think about it. A lot of it I feel has to do with my oldest asking questions and a lot I don’t know the answer to (she’s 6). But I do also feel like he has a purpose for me beyond answering questions for my daughter and I feel like it’s to help my husband battle his struggles with sex addiction and has hurt me so much through our years together. We separated for a little while after boundaries were crossed… and after us doing therapy separately & after asking God to show me what I should do… or more guide me, I feel like my purpose is to lead my husband to God… or just help him find his way. We are not married through church but we want to change that, we are just “married” common law. We both grew up catholic and did attend church when we were younger but didn’t grow up extremely religious. I want to change that by starting with reading the Bible, I just wouldn’t know where to start, with what book?
A: It's great you want to know God, be right with Him, know your purpose, lead your husband to salvation and to raise your kids in Christ.
It is good he went to get help of sorts (therapy), but people can't overcome their sins until God saves them. Perhaps you're seeing that without him having spiritual life given by God, without having a new nature and new & right desires, as Scripture says, that any attempts to help him are just a bandaid, not the solution. He needs Christ. From there he can be guided by the Word, his love for God and holy living, with a biblical counselor to disciple and guide him to understand God's holiness, and to conquer that sin, as any other.
God has a clear purpose for us, laid out in Scripture, we were created in His image, to be like him (Scripture explains that further), to glorify Him, and enjoy fellowship with him forever. Further that includes the redeemed's identity in Christ, and our commission to share the Gospel, and biblical truth, too.
I'll provide resources below related to that and your post. But I want to address the error of church marriage. There's nothing in Scripture to teach that as a requirement neither of a believer nor for salvation (it's a false teaching meant to instill fear by RCC & keep folk trapped in that branch of false religion [masqurading as Christian]). So just know if you had a wedding or went to justice of the peace already then your in a covenant marriage before God. Its a done deal. If your just fornicating and living together, that's not marriage. From biblical standpoint your just living with a guy your not married to. And if hes unsaved & doesn't recieve the Gospel, you need to take your daughter and move out. Find a godly saved man to marry. Right now your just like the woman at the well, just "living in sin with a guy" not legitimately married to, "playing house" with a bf, (who just happens to be the baby daddy, ....by natural consequences of sexual sin). God is giving you a way to flee an unequally yoked relationship, so take it, to be blessed. Light and darkness have no compatibility. They're at emnity.
It's great you have concern over being able to answer your child's questions about God and Christianity, and knowing Scripture enough to answer them. You can get answer help from those at church who have kids, or from teachers & leadership [as theyre mature in the Faith to know], (you & the child can also ask their Sunday school teacher too), so its another reason it's important to be in a solid bible focused church, you can find onenmity.
Hope all these help you.
God bless
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