23 Years and counting….

23 Years and counting….

This past Sunday, my wife and I celebrated our 23^rd wedding anniversary. I would love to tell you all that it has been 23 years of marital bliss. We certainly have had some wonderful years, but we also had some not so wonderful years. I have to admit at this point that the years that were not so great were definitely all my fault.

I will not go into what went wrong” during those lean years (mainly because it is none of your business!) But I will attempt to discuss some biblical principles that we should glean from marriage…not just my marriage, but all marriages.

Marriage is something that has been ordained by God Himself. He said in Genesis 2:18 And the LORD God said, "It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him." That relationship that the Lord wants us to have with our spouse is very synonymous with the relationship He wants to have with us. The Lord desires that we have this intimate, close, deep, personal, blissful, (did I mention intimate) relationship with Him. That same kind of relationship each of us desires to have with someone from the opposite sex, guess what, that is the kind of relationship He wants with us….only deeper!

This is one of those subjects that require WAY TOO MUCH more space than this little one page blog is going to give…at least today. I would like to revisit this subject in the near future due to the shear importance of it. And I pray that the Lord will shake me and take hold of me and not let go until I write something that will glorify Him. Until then, before this ends, there is something very important that needs to be said. Here goes….

Here is why the marriage is important to God: Those of us that are saved, those of us that are believers, those of us that are redeemed by Jesus, those of us that are His…we are “the bride of Christ”. That phrase should say it all so I will say it again; we are the bride of Christ. When we mess with the marriage, we are messing up a “type”. The type we are messing with is one in which Jesus and His bride lives in that intimate relationship. It is a FOREVER thing. God promises to never leave us nor forsake us. He promises that we will be His forever. Marriage on earth is a great example, or type of that.

Thank you Mirka for 23 years!!!

God forgive us…forgive me when I don’t take and hold sacred what you hold sacred!