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84. Our Stories

27th June 2000 by Arthur Eedle

The man who refuses to allow his wife any freedom of speech in the spiritual progress of their lives, throttles the voice of the Holy Spirit to himself. The woman who throttles that same Voice, allowing herself to be a ‘doormat’, prevents her husband from being moulded by His word through her.

The man who takes a ‘back seat’ and allows his spiritually active wife to take the lead, presents her to the powers of darkness with inadequate covering, opening her up to spiritual abuse. The spiritually active wife who leads the ministry from the home, without consulting her husband, is in danger of hearing the voices of deceiving spirits rather than the Holy Spirit. She walks out from beneath her God-given covering.

These are self-evident truths that often cause anger, hurt, bitterness, and contention in Christian marriages, simply because of the psychology of male and female minds, and the difference in make-up as part of God’s creation. Ideals are often presented in Scripture, whereby we can know what is best in God’s sight, but when it comes down to everyday practice, we all fall short. In this paper my wife and I would like to report on some of the things that we have learned in 35 years of marriage, with the raising of four children, three of whom are now living their own married lives, and the fourth will be married shortly.

Arthur’s report. The fact that in 1965 I was in my early thirties, and my wife-to-be was some years younger, gave me an immediate ‘advantage’ over her. I say this because I know how much Rosalind respected me in those days, looking up to me for a spiritual lead. This produced the situation mentioned above, but NOT because I wanted to ‘silence’ her in any way.   Over the following years, now seen in perspective, I was strong-minded, but often selfish and thoughtless. Rosalind recognised this. I didn’t. But she found that on advising me about certain aspects of my thoughtlessness, I would take offence. I could not hear the voice of God’s Spirit to me, through her. I don’t know why. Perhaps it was because it touched my pride. But then, human nature is often too complex to identify a wrong with one simple label. This is not to say that we had a ‘problem marriage.’ By no means. We have had a good strong relationship throughout. I am merely highlighting matters of day-to-day contact and working together.   In more recent years, after both of us had been through a nervous breakdown, and whilst the children were still young and of school age, the Lord broke through this barrier in my life. I came to realise that I had ‘taken offence’ instead of listening to my wife’s gentle words of constructive criticism. Within a short time my mind cleared, and I apologised to her for the inward hurt I had caused her. I think this was the beginning of a more gentle and understanding phase of my life. In the goodness of the Lord, I am sure He has, since then, been making up for the ‘years the locust had eaten.’

Rosalind and I work together in everything we do. We share every aspect of our lives, neither is afraid to point out any word or action that might be hurtful, selfish, or thoughtless. No offence is taken. Problems are cleared up on the spot before they have time to poison the mind. We send little cards of apology to each other. I can only say that married life is now more wonderful than ever, and I thank the Lord for such a wonderfully understanding partner, my ‘real counterpart’.   Although it must be quite obvious to our readers that I do most of the writing, I always say that our articles are from ‘Arthur & Rosalind’. The reason is that everything that comes from my pen is read by, and discussed with my wife. Nothing leaves this house, whether it be letter or article, that isn’t wholly in tune with both of us. Many are the times when she spots that a wrong impression might be given, or a thought is not fully developed, or even that something contradicts what we have already learned. Changes are made before anything reaches the ‘out box’.   I want to pay tribute to my wife. Her prayer life, and her commitment to me, have been God’s instrument in grinding and polishing my rough stonework. She is God’s gift to me, and she is very precious to me. We have grown together over the years, and are now more in love than at the start. She has been used of the Lord as part of that ‘inner fire’ of refining of which we spoke in a recent number.

Rosalind’s report.   I don’t feel worthy of all that Arthur has written and from my point of view I  failed my husband over the first years of our married life. My failure was due, I believe, to my lack of personal relationship with the Lord in an on-going, daily way. I was too intent on ‘keeping the peace’ and not being what a wife was intended to be – a helper in EVERY way.   The Lord used my severe breakdown to draw me to Himself, and one of the results was that I became aware that as a wife I needed to understand what was for my husband’s best good, not what would just ‘keep the waters smooth.’ It has been hard at times as we both had to adjust to my different approach, but the fruits are now evident in a loving, balanced and harmonious relationship. From an ‘in loveness‘, which has remained all our 35 years, we have grown in friendship and understanding so that all that we say and do is as a result of our oneness. For this I thank the Lord who has engineered our circumstances to bring this about.   My life as a married woman has been a very stable one, and although we have been through very traumatic times along the way, I have been privileged to be married to a man who has loved the Lord first and foremost, and it has been this that has given me the security to go through many of the fires the Lord has allowed to come our way. It is my considered opinion that true happiness and contentment can only come to a wife when her ATTITUDE  is first and foremost submitted  to the Lord, rather than just to her husband. Her submission is therefore not of the ‘door mat’ variety, but is a heart attitude which is free to be wrong, and free to be right, as the Lord directs.

We are also privileged to have raised four children and each of them has a vital relationship with the Lord. This has not been because Arthur and I have always done what is right by them, we have failed many times, but the Lord has been their Creator and He has been faithful. And here I want to thank my husband for the underlying principle by which he has led our family – he has always pointed our eyes outwards towards the Lord and has had little time for introspection and self analysis. His absolute trust in the Lord, for ALL things, has radiated stability and contentment, recognising we are all fallen beings for whom our Lord died, and in Him and Him alone we have life. To discover more and more of the character of God has been the bedrock and drive of our family life.   It was when Arthur began reading to us all of an evening from the fiction of C.S Lewis, George MacDonald, and many others, both secular and Christian, that we learned lessons which started to expand our vision. Together with the children we grew in our understanding of life. Based on the stability of the trust Arthur had encouraged in us, we began embracing life in a way which we had never before envisaged. The Lord used this to help Arthur and I in our marriage, but it is only in retrospect that we can see this. The meaningful things from fiction infiltrated our beings and changed us both and we absorbed even deeper aspects of the Lord Himself.     So we have grown in our understanding through hardship and fire and I pray that the Lord continues this in our lives until we see Him. I am so grateful for my husband and how he is helping me become myself under the hand of the Lord. Because he listens to me and I know he REALLY listens, I know I need never be afraid.

From Arthur & Rosalind Eedle, Lincolnshire, England.

 

Filed Under: The Wayside Pulpit Tagged With: Arthur & Rosalind Eedle's Personal Testimonies

About Arthur Eedle

Arthur was born in 1931, and became a Christian in 1948. At London University he gained a 2nd honours degree in Physics. He went on to get a Teaching Diploma, and throughout his career life taught physics in England, Kenya, and Hong Kong. Coupled with his love of science, he was a keen student of Greek and Hebrew, and gave many lectures on Biblical subjects. Read more

The Wayside Pulpit

1. Introduction

11th May 1999 By Arthur Eedle

2. Rave Music

13th May 1999 By Arthur Eedle

3. “I know you”

13th June 1999 By Arthur Eedle

4. God of all men

15th June 1999 By Arthur Eedle

5. Truth and Error

21st June 1999 By Arthur Eedle

6. Ruth Prince

2nd July 1999 By Arthur Eedle

7. Talking Trees

3rd July 1999 By Arthur Eedle

8. Dangers of rock music

6th July 1999 By Arthur Eedle

9. True Worship

9th July 1999 By Arthur Eedle

10. A wonderful building

11th July 1999 By Arthur Eedle

11. Traits of the self-life

15th July 1999 By Arthur Eedle

12. 100 Pianos

28th July 1999 By Arthur Eedle

13. “Much more” & “No more”

5th August 1999 By Arthur Eedle

14. Evangelism and the second advent

8th August 1999 By Arthur Eedle

15. Tribute to Ron Wyatt

10th August 1999 By Arthur Eedle

16. The opening of the Kansas Senate in the USA

12th August 1999 By Arthur Eedle

17. The face of feminism

14th August 1999 By Arthur Eedle

18. The second coming of Elijah

19th August 1999 By Arthur Eedle

19. Mellowing with age

21st August 1999 By Arthur Eedle

20. The rationality of the Christian faith

24th August 1999 By Arthur Eedle

21. The first and the lost

28th August 1999 By Arthur Eedle

22. The coming of the Lord

2nd September 1999 By Arthur Eedle

23. “I am coming tomorrow!”

4th September 1999 By Arthur Eedle

24. Living stones for a spiritual temple

7th September 1999 By Arthur Eedle

25. Rosh Hashana – the feast of trumpets

10th September 1999 By Arthur Eedle

26. A Tribute to the Rock-Badger’s Family

14th September 1999 By Arthur Eedle

27. The Cursed Fig Tree

17th September 1999 By Arthur Eedle

28. “Tell me the old, old story”

19th September 1999 By Arthur Eedle

29. A Sovereign Work

22nd September 1999 By Arthur Eedle

30. Today is the Secret of Tomorrow

24th September 1999 By Arthur Eedle

31. Neatly Packaged Boxes and Illuminated Signposts

1st October 1999 By Arthur Eedle

32. “In danger of hell fire”

3rd October 1999 By Arthur Eedle

33. The Silent Witness

5th October 1999 By Arthur Eedle

34. The Lesson of Amos

8th October 1999 By Arthur Eedle

35. The Great Tribulation

11th October 1999 By Arthur Eedle

36. “Until”

14th October 1999 By Arthur Eedle

37. The Unnerving Power of Tradition

18th October 1999 By Arthur Eedle

37a. The Explorer

19th October 1999 By Arthur Eedle

38. The Dart Family

22nd October 1999 By Arthur Eedle

39. “Nothing new under the Sun”

31st October 1999 By Arthur Eedle

40. “When the Stars begin to fall”

1st November 1999 By Arthur Eedle

41. The Coming of the Christ

3rd November 1999 By Arthur Eedle

42. “Like unto Moses.”

6th November 1999 By Arthur Eedle

43. “Sweet Revenge!”

7th November 1999 By Arthur Eedle

44. The Second Coming

14th November 1999 By Arthur Eedle

45. Forgiveness & Punishment

23rd November 1999 By Arthur Eedle

47. The Pattern and Purpose of the Cherubim

2nd December 1999 By Arthur Eedle

48. The Unforgivable Sin

4th December 1999 By Arthur Eedle

49. Japhah, the Beautiful One

5th December 1999 By Arthur Eedle

50. Resurrection by Judgement

11th December 1999 By Arthur Eedle

51. “The Saviour of Mankind”

17th December 1999 By Arthur Eedle

52. “Bad Associations corrupt Good Customs”

29th December 1999 By Arthur Eedle

53. Fingerprints and Irises

2nd January 2000 By Arthur Eedle

54. Cats, Dogs and Philodendrons

4th January 2000 By Arthur Eedle

55. The Second Eve

15th January 2000 By Arthur Eedle

56. The Illuminati

22nd January 2000 By Arthur Eedle

57. The Dark Day of May 19th 1780

24th January 2000 By Arthur Eedle

58. Hidden Significances

26th January 2000 By Arthur Eedle

59. “Before”

5th February 2000 By Arthur Eedle

60. When “shall” becomes “will”

10th February 2000 By Arthur Eedle

61. The Death of the Husband

13th February 2000 By Arthur Eedle

63. St. Paul the Abortion

25th February 2000 By Arthur Eedle

64. The Moral Dilemma

27th February 2000 By Arthur Eedle

65. The Moral Dilemma. A Personal Answer

1st March 2000 By Arthur Eedle

66. The Moral Dilemma. A Second Answer

4th March 2000 By Arthur Eedle

67. The Joy of our Salvation

11th March 2000 By Arthur Eedle

68. The love of God

16th March 2000 By Arthur Eedle

69. The Windows of the Soul

28th March 2000 By Arthur Eedle

70. Vision & Prophecy

2nd April 2000 By Arthur Eedle

71. Confusion

12th April 2000 By Arthur Eedle

72. Creation’s Vanity

18th April 2000 By Arthur Eedle

73. “Friend, move up higher!”

2nd May 2000 By Arthur Eedle

74. The Last Generation

25th May 2000 By Arthur Eedle

75. The House of the Soul

29th May 2000 By Arthur Eedle

76. The Opening of the Sheath

1st June 2000 By Arthur Eedle

77. Possession

2nd June 2000 By Arthur Eedle

78. Ancestral Bondage

5th June 2000 By Arthur Eedle

79. The State of the Dead

7th June 2000 By Arthur Eedle

80. Professor William Barclay

10th June 2000 By Arthur Eedle

81. The Unacceptable Face of Universalism

12th June 2000 By Arthur Eedle

82. No Escape from the Fire

21st June 2000 By Arthur Eedle

83. My Help

22nd June 2000 By Arthur Eedle

84. Our Stories

27th June 2000 By Arthur Eedle

85. Filling up that which is lacking

9th July 2000 By Arthur Eedle

86. Road Rage

15th July 2000 By Arthur Eedle

87. Immanuel

19th July 2000 By Arthur Eedle

88. Daughters of Thunder

27th July 2000 By Arthur Eedle

89. Casting off all Restraint

1st August 2000 By Arthur Eedle

90. Food, glorious Food!

3rd August 2000 By Arthur Eedle

91. The Kindly Laws of the Old Testament

7th August 2000 By Arthur Eedle

92. Resurrection

2nd September 2000 By Arthur Eedle

93. More about Resurrection

15th September 2000 By Arthur Eedle

94. “With what body do they come?”

22nd September 2000 By Arthur Eedle

95. One Helluva Hole

9th October 2000 By Arthur Eedle

96. A Whale of a Tale

10th October 2000 By Arthur Eedle

97. The Hallelujah Chorus

11th October 2000 By Arthur Eedle

98. “It never even entered my mind.”

16th October 2000 By Arthur Eedle

99. A Passionate Plea for Truth

18th October 2000 By Arthur Eedle

100. Warfare in the Heavenlies

20th October 2000 By Arthur Eedle

101. “The Lamb and Flag”

27th October 2000 By Arthur Eedle

102. Souls of men

1st November 2000 By Arthur Eedle

103. Sacrifice

4th November 2000 By Arthur Eedle

106. For whom did Christ die?

16th December 2000 By Arthur Eedle

107. “I cannot tell . . . but this I know.”

18th December 2000 By Arthur Eedle

108. The Great Cloud of Witnesses

19th December 2000 By Arthur Eedle

109. The law of circularity

10th January 2001 By Arthur Eedle

110. James Relly & John Murray

13th January 2001 By Arthur Eedle

Article Series

  • All our Yesterdays (30)
  • Before He comes (13)
  • God's Spoken Word (37)
  • Mysteries of Science & Faith (8)
  • New Series (101)
  • Newsletter (2)
  • Original Series (109)
  • Prophecy considerations (5)
  • Recognising the Hand of Judgment (33)
  • Resurrection and Change (16)
  • Seekers Corner (14)
  • Simple Statements on Serious Subjects (6)
  • The City of God (18)
  • The Millennial Octave (23)
  • The Restitution Times (22)
  • The Song of Solomon (6)
  • The Standard (19)
  • The Wayside Pulpit (107)
  • The Wayside Pulpit 2015 (96)
  • The Wellspring (101)
  • The Wellspring 2017 (55)

Index of Topics

Arthur & Rosalind Eedle's Personal Testimonies Discipleship Expository Items Good and Evil Human Pre-Existance Jane Leade. Philadelphian Numerology in the Bible Quotations from other Authors Resurrection and the Change Ron Wyatt. Archaeology Science Topics The Kingdom of God the Millennium and the Return of Christ The Sabbath Day Universal Reconcilliation

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