Undercover

I first heard the term "undercover" from John Bevere's book of the same title. John shares that we are to walk in submission to our spiritual authority(s) and about the blessings that come along with that submission. I've tried to be a person that walks under authority in most areas of my life; with the Lord, with my parents, with my boss, with the law, etc. But, as a wife in a "former" dysfunctional marriage, I had never really learned to be submissive to my husband. Recently, I've asked God for wisdom on this, and He has begun teaching me about spiritual authority, or submission, to my husband.

I am reminded back to when we first began the journey at Teen Challenge. I remember the feeling I felt just driving up the drive in Colfax. I felt safe; I felt love; I felt freedom! I knew that Teen Challenge was under God's authority and was bathed in prayers. I trusted in the fact that praying saints, many whom I have never met, were praying for my husband, for my family, and for me. I knew that my husband was standing under God's authority, as well as the authority of Teen Challenge. I felt the Lord's covering and I basked under it.

Now that we've moved on to Omaha, the feeling of being undercover I experience is very different, but much the same. The covering I now realize is not only the covering of prayers, not only the covering of Teen Challenge staff and leadership team, but the covering of my husband and his prayers!

As I was driving back home after one of our recent visits, God reminded me just how different things really were. I remember one of my first few Wives Weekends. The Wives were talking about fears we were facing of not being about to trust our husbands. I remember saying out loud, "I'm not able to trust my husband right now, but I trust in the God that lives in my husband." That is a true statement, and it's ok to feel that way. Now, after a few more months of growing through this, I'd like to add to that statement, "It is the God that lives in my husband, that is walking me through the healing process of learning to trust again!"




2 Corinthians 5:17 (NIV) Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!


2 Corinthians 5:16-20 (The Message) Because of this decision we don't evaluate people by what they have or how they look. We looked at the Messiah that way once and got it all wrong, as you know. We certainly don't look at him that way anymore. Now we look inside, and what we see is that anyone united with the Messiah gets a fresh start, is created new. The old life is gone; a new life burgeons! Look at it! All this comes from the God who settled the relationship between us and him, and then called us to settle our relationships with each other. God put the world square with himself through the Messiah, giving the world a fresh start by offering forgiveness of sins. God has given us the task of telling everyone what he is doing. We're Christ's representatives. God uses us to persuade men and women to drop their differences and enter into God's work of making things right between them. We're speaking for Christ himself now: Become friends with God; he's already a friend with you.