Who is Pulling the Strings Part 4
Influence: the act or power of producing an effect without apparent exertion of force or direct exercise of command.
Manipulation: to control or play upon by artful, unfair, or insidious means especially to one’s own advantage.
Manipulation is not always inspired by the demonic but it is no less wrong or evil. This happens a lot in marriage. You can get to know your spouse so well you know what things affect them and the ways it affects them. You know what sets off your spouse. You know what your spouse desires most. Knowing these things is supposed to better your relationship. However, these things can be used in an unhealthy manner. Mental abuse is nothing more than manipulation. Spouses berate the other to make them do what they want them to do. It is so sick that a spouse would take the sacred gift of their spouses’ heart and twist it and manipulate the person they are supposed to love like Christ loved the church, but it happens. Men telling their their wives they need to lose weight so they never feel attractive. Women who withhold sex to teach their husbands a lesson or until they do what they want.
These are forms of manipulation and are demonic and evil. Couples have to be very careful to not let bitterness creep into their marriage. A conscious effort must be made or just as subtly as a commercial ad we barely glimpse over compels us to buy something, so can a word said in the wrong way, can set a marriage on a course it was never meant to go.
To be continued…
Kevin
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Great post.
Next part of my series coming in a little while.
Kevin
