Covenant Love

Twelve years ago today I became a bride for the holiest of purposes - that I had yet to realize - and still do not fully know or comprehend. The passionate, Consuming Fire that is our loving God continues to burn IN and THROUGH this marriage melding the two of us into His image. If I had only known what marriage meant then - would I have stood before my groom without tears, without humility??? Would I have even thought I was capable - let alone worthy - of the task that we would embrace - hand in hand - life to life??? How merciful that our understanding is veiled!

A covenant of love, of power, of grace seals a marriage. That we, who live for Christ, are held to it daily - with love - joy - peace - longsuffering - gentleness - goodness - faith - is a miracle of God's promise (Gal. 5:22). He is able. He alone can do it. We - together- are saved daily by a covenant that He alone has made. It is all our God. We cannot boast one day of what He - for His purposes - has done - and by His grace continues to do.

What a gift to our stained glass window of life! He has pieced it together. He has fired it, colored it, arranged it, and set it apart. And He is the light shining through it to reveal His own image. It is all Him.

"None of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself." Romans 14:7 "Let no one seek his own, but each one the others well-being." I Corinthians 10:24

Marriage

"You were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's." I Corinthians 6:20 Christ will be magnified in the body. (Phil. 1:20)

Is

Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. (I Cor. 1:24) In whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. (Col. 2:3) The unsearchable riches of Christ. (Eph. 3:8) Of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God; and righteousness and sanctification and redemption. (Eph. 3:19)

Miraculous!

"And the two" - 12 years ago - and still - and yet again today - and by grace tomorrow - and tomorrow - and, oh God, that we could have still another day after that, and after that; we two - by His power -" became one flesh". He equals me. And I am still falling with him - ever so much deeper in THE LOVE our God has made.

May I honor you, God, by the way that I love my husband - and honor him by the way I love YOU.