A man went to his pastor for counseling. In his hands were pages of complaints against his wife. After hours of uninterrupted listening, the pastor couldn’t help but ask, “If she is that bad, why did you marry her?” Immediately the man shot back, “She wasn’t like this at first!” The pastor, unable to hold back his thoughts, asked, “So, are you saying that she is like this because she’s been married to you?”
Whether or not this story is true, it does suggest an important lesson to be learned. At times, feelings toward a spouse may grow cold. But love is much more than feelings—it’s a lifelong commitment.
Although most people choose to marry only because of love, in some cultures people still get married through matchmaking. In the lives of Isaac and Rebekah recorded in the book of Genesis, love came after marriage. It says in chapter 24 that Isaac married Rebekah and then he loved her (v.67).
Biblical love is about our willingness to do what is good for another. Husbands are instructed to “love their own wives as their own bodies” (Eph. 5:28).
So, walking in obedience to the Lord, let’s keep our marriage vows to love “till death do us part.” — Albert Lee
“For better or for worse,” we pledge,
“Through sickness and through strife”;
And by the help and grace of God
We’ll keep these vows for life. —D. De Haan
Love is more than a feeling, it’s a commitment.
This reading today just reminds me of God's forgiving love and grace, that after He died for us, and we in turn give our lives to Him, we are sealing a marriage pact. After this marriage, we should love God and Him only, for He has shown us pure, great, amazing, powerful, intimate, everlasting love... the list goes on and on...
I remember last year when i counted the days down to youth sunday... was kind strange though... dont have to remember... anyway, with each beginning of a year new things happen. Like new skills and new friends, each are God's blessing. As such, this blog would also help to keep me in rememberance of God's everlasting love.
Just this morning i dreamt of playing the electric guitar, cos probably of the movie i watched just before i slept, school of rock. LOL. I hope in the near future i can...
Tomorrow is a great day, because God gave us the opportunity to use this sunday, to reach out to the youths in church and friends, to come and take a closer walk with God in point community. Let us not waste the opportunity my brothers and sisters... let us not!!
If its ok with ms yap... then i would like to do the same after the blog to write a song for the day, that i may keep it in my mind throughout:
Of how God has shown us love:
When I survey the wondrous cross
On which the Prince of Glory died
My richest gain I count but loss
And pour contempt on all my pride
See from his head, his hands, his feet
Sorrow and love flow mingled down
Did ever such love and sorrow meet
Or thorns compose so rich a crown
O the wonderful cross, O the wonderful cross
Bids me come and die and find that I may truly live
O the wonderful cross, O the wonderful cross
All who gather here by grace draw near and bless
Your name
Were the whole realm of nature mine
That were an offering far too small
Love so amazing, so divine
Demands my soul, my life, my all
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