Marriage Part 2

12/29/11…And now my Lord, I glorify You because I believe your Holy Spirit has placed a thought in my mind. I believe all the meditations and studying of Your Word allows this to happen. At the most inopportune times, a prompting of remembrance occurs in Your scripture. I quickly turn the pages and I find the precious words. I take solace in knowing I can see these words with my eyes and I can touch your Word with my fingers. Sometimes I need this.

So how do we, my wife and I as newly married people, approach You and utter the words, “we are all in”. What happens if my wife and I are on different pages? What if she is not ready to utter these words and I am? What do I do? What do we do? And now Father, I feel in Your graciousness, You have provided me with a mustard seed of knowledge. I hope what I write reflects this but I do not know. 

Based on your Word, I believe I understand the sanctity of marriage a little more and how You view just how important it is. In Your passage in Matthew, You mention the possibility of causing division among those closest to us: a father, a son, a mother, and a daughter. You even mention mother-in-law and daughter-in-law knowing in marriage the extension includes the in-law. Now my thoughts roam to this realization. You make no mention of husband and wife. You do not say I will set a husband against his wife, and a wife against her husband. You do not say anyone who loves wife or husband above me is not worthy of following Me. The reason being I think is this. You consider husband and wife as one. Therefore there is no reason to mention this because there are no longer two people. You view us both as one.

Therefore, my wife and I should take comfort in knowing You will ask nothing of us that will cause division of us, because we are one in Your name. Doing good to glorify You does not mean setting each of us against the other, it means following You in one accord. I made a decision to serve You through the sanctity of marriage versus a single. You take this promise seriously and You honor this promise seriously. Seems so obvious, but I wonder how obvious the reality of this really is.

Christ, my Lord, I ask that Your will be done in our marriage that allows us to do good and glorify You. I thank you for Your patience. I thank you for Your Word. If what I wrote is not of You, then I pray the words will fall to the ground.

And now, the journey continues…