Marriage is not about staying in love…
Dont get me wrong, I’m obviously not married… so I have no idea the struggles that are in store or the hardships I will go through in a marriage but I know that Divorce well NEVER be an option. The Lord created marriage to be so much more than a feeling. More than quote on quote “love.” However, this world has distorted everything about marriage that God first intended it to be…
My whole life I have grown up in a home that had an unhealthy marriage.. I thought when parents get in arguments, that it automatically meant that it was this long drawn out brawl because thats all I could remember them to be. I didnt know that a healthy marriage could exist… until I met Jesus.
Growing up and going off to college to a Christian University (DBU) where everyone loves Jesus and everyone is “perfect,” you never got to see the real world or meet many people that don’t know the Lord.. Call me sheltered if you want, but I would so much prefer that than what I have seen here in the work place, a mans world. its vicious. Everyday at lunch, all i hear is complaints about their marriages and how much they hate it.. and slowly, everyday, my heart breaks more and more for the world and for broken marriages….
God didnt create marriage to be this way.
Christ is our bridegroom.. he came here to pursue his wife. to love her, to chase after her, to die for her. He did absolutely everything for her and he will never leave her, he still hasnt. and his wife (God’s children) pursue him, chased after him, submitted to him, respects him, and follows his lead. and it is the beautiful picture of what marriage is to be.
marriage is God’s doing, its intended to put the Gospel on the ultimate display. thats the ONLY reason marriage exists…
FOR HIM^^ thats it… and how wonderful that Christ would allow us to join together as one in marriage and have the priviledge of displaying the Lord. what an honor.
I pray that my marriage looks this way. I hope to put Christ on the ultimate display. and even if times get tough I pray that it is the Lord we both pursue, He is the healer of all things. He wants the best for us, he wants marriage to work, He wants the glory because he is so worthy of that…. so worthy. I know I am no where near perfect, and I never will be, and I know I will often fail.. But he is sovereign, I know marriage can be the way he intended.. I pray for that, everyday.
He > i.
thanks for listening to my rant.
”So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.” matthew 19:6
let no man seperate.. divorce isnt an option. the Lord is the only person that can seperate a marriage.. His decision, not ours.
Marriage is not about staying in love, its a committment to become one, and display the ultimate creator and his creation.. his love.
19 I will make you my wife forever,
showing you righteousness and justice,
unfailing love and compassion.
20 I will be faithful to you and make you mine,
and you will finally know me as the Lord.
Hosea 2:19-20
,” declares the LORD,
“you will call me ‘my husband’;
you will no longer call me ‘my master”
Hosea 2:16
We are his bride. He is our groom.
lets put that on Display.
