{"id":10457,"date":"2012-11-04T07:49:14","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T13:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=10457"},"modified":"2012-11-04T07:49:14","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T13:49:14","slug":"walking-in-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2012\/20121104-10457.htm","title":{"rendered":"Walking in the Light"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a continuation of Daniel’s and my story. Click on the “Our Story<\/a>” tag for context.<\/i><\/p>\n

I was actively at war against idolatry, but it was a private war. I hadn’t told anyone. At least, not in any detail. I had told Daniel a little about the Timothy Keller book, and had said “Even now, weeks from reading the book, I’m still thinking and praying about what I learned about idolatry, especially about idols in my own heart.”<\/p>\n

Daniel had probed about my idols, and I was suddenly shy.<\/p>\n

So far, we’d been writing lengthy messages back and forth, covering the usual get-to-know-you stuff and some more weighty intellectual topics. But we hadn’t entered the realm of the heart. This seemed a rather hefty topic on which to enter that realm. I hesitated.<\/p>\n

At the same time, I was reading through 1 John daily. Just then, 1 John 1:7 began to stick out to me. <\/p>\n

“If we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, aand the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I realized that I needed to confess my idolatry to another, that I needed to walk in the light regarding my longstanding sin. But I wasn’t sure Daniel was the best person to confess to.<\/p>\n

I went to my friend Cathy to confess and ask for her advice.<\/p>\n

After hearing me out, Cathy asked whether I thought it was wise that I was writing to Daniel just as God was working in my heart to overthrow the idol of marriage.<\/p>\n

I confessed that I didn’t know, couldn’t decide. I didn’t feel that I was making Daniel my focus, didn’t think I was making marriage an idol again in my interaction with him. But I feared that I would, feared I’d been rash in accepting the introduction.<\/p>\n

Cathy listened and agreed to pray with me about that decision. And so we did. For the next week, I earnestly entreated God to show me if He didn’t want me talking with Daniel just then. Cathy prayed too.<\/p>\n

When we got together the next week, neither of us felt we’d received a definitive answer from God. In the absence of any word from the Lord otherwise, I continued writing Daniel.<\/p>\n

Over the next couple of weeks, God confirmed through many sources the work that He had done in my life in overthrowing the idol of marriage. At last, I came to a peace with the fact that Daniel and I were getting to know each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a continuation of Daniel’s and my story. Click on the “Our Story” tag for context. I was actively at war against idolatry, but it was a private war. I hadn’t told anyone. At least, not in any detail. I had told Daniel a little about the Timothy Keller book, and had said “Even … Read more Walking in the Light<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[39],"tags":[841],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10457"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}