Dave Robbins - Fifteen months ago, I thought my life was over. I thought my  marriage was over. I would lose my family, and I was sitting in the living room  with my wife, and just falling apart. I really don't know why she was even there,  still with me. We were on our knees, knelt down. She said, You think you're  saved, right? I don't know. Thought I was, grew up in church, knew about the  Bible, knew about Jesus, but I didn't feel saved. Felt separated and ashamed  and full of guilt and full of fear, tormented, just tormented. I have spent an entire  lifetime struggling with temptation. I have struggled with alcohol. I have  struggled with sex, pornography at a very young age. You know, struggling with  that even as a newly married guy. You know, those temptations and those  thoughts, and seven years in our marriage, you know, I struggled with infidelity  and it almost ended our marriage then and then I got sober. Thought that would  fix everything, all the other stuff would stop as well, you know, and just  eventually going down the path I was, and the more success I got with my  career, the more I thought I could have what I wanted and do what I wanted to  do. I created this dual life lust, no matter who they were or where I was. You  know, could be in church. I entered into a relationship outside of my marriage  with someone I'm a bad person. You know, I kept my wife in the dark about  everything. I was there, but I wasn't there. I was present, but not present. That in itself, led to me starting to branch out and want to start up other things with other women, sexting and all that started up with random people that I didn't even  know. I was convinced I'm gonna leave my wife, I'm gonna leave my kids, but  now I'm in so deep I don't know what to do. I'm sunk. This is like, sociopath stuff, you know, this is like crazy, oh, I can't even I was just a dead person I was. I had run out of lies. My wife figured out what was going on.  

Mary Lynn Robbins - I've read that infidelity is the next to the death of a child,  the worst pain, painful you're in this pit and you don't see that there's you don't  feel like there's any way out. And then you'd have to tell your kids. Your infidelity  we have dealt with that. Dave knows what that brings in a relationship. He  knows how much pain that causes. It is so hard to believe that anybody could  come home to their family. Family and look at them and lie to them like he did.  

Dave Robbins - That was that tough time of not really knowing what we were  going to do, her not knowing what she was going to do. We had a lot of friends  that said, you know, you should leave him. You are going to leave him right? We  had a few that were not so quick to go there. God, can do anything. It was  several, two, three weeks before my wife and I ended up on our knees in our  living room,  

Mary Lynn Robbins - as painful as it was, as as heartbreaking as it was, I still 

knew that I would be committed to my marriage vows. I knew I had to forgive  him, and I was going to have to walk out that forgiveness.  

Dave Robbins - She chose to honor God and to honor our marriage by fighting  for it rather than walking away.  

Mary Lynn Robbins - Dave and I were on our knees in our living room,  

Dave Robbins - and she started praying for me, and then prayed with me at that  moment I had the opportunity to to give my life away. Finally, that was the night  that I asked God to come to me right where I was, and to rescue me and get me out of this pit that I was in. And I thought I had to tell him what a wreck and what  

a mess I was, and he already knew and took me as I was. That's all I really  wanted for somebody to just take me the way I was. 

Mary Lynn Robbins - even though I was in the throes of all that pain and hurt  and brokenness, once we opened our eyes, I knew something had changed in  Dave. He saw the beauty of the Christ for the first time,  

Dave Robbins - to do somebody completely one way, and then turn around and  do you completely the opposite. I guess that's what God does with us, you  know? I guess that's what grace is we get what we don't deserve. My name is  Dave Robbins, and I am Second. 



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