First of all, I apologize for the lack of content on here for the last 10 months or so. I hope to remedy that soon! ;)
Well, one month ago today, this warrior poet's dream came true as I married my very best friend. It is hard to believe that it already has been one month. Time sure didn't fly before the wedding, but it certainly is now.
For me, this has been a bit of a milestone. All my life, I have been preparing myself for marriage, to be the best husband I can be, and now marriage has overtaken me. While I still have much to grow and learn in being a husband, my life is entirely different. Marriage is so special and so life changing. It has become my delight to serve and love my wife, to cherish, protect, guide, and lead her.
It is in this covenant relationship, this becoming of one flesh with my wife, that I find now I have an even greater and better understanding of the relationship that we the church have with Christ. Marriage is intended to be a picture of our relationship with God. Now, one month into marriage, I must say I have an even deeper understanding of what it means to be one with Christ, and an even greater love for Him. Like in marriage, when we choose to be His disciple, it is a dramatic and drastic change. Our lives no longer are about ourselves, but about Him, about loving and serving Him, just as now, my focus is much more on loving and serving my wife. Also, I want to know my wife as intimately as possible, and I eagerly seek out who she is, what makes her smile, what brings her joy, and pain. Likewise, as followers of Christ, it should only be natural that we seek Him out, and desire to know Him more so we can love and serve Him better.
Through this past month, I have better understood that love is the center of a Christian's life. God is love, and we are to love Him, and each other with every fiber of our being. As I love Christ, and follow Him, so also, that love is given back to me to love my wife. And, it is the way it should be. I feel most satisfied by loving God, and by loving my wife. Don't get me wrong, my love for God far exceeds the love for my wife, but the more I love on her, the more I see Him and what love really is, which grows my love for Him even more which then I see even more of Him, which gives me even more love for my wife, and so on. We were made to love God, but He also designed us to love each other.
It is so beautiful to see how wonderful God has made marriage, and what an amazing picture and challenge it is of how we are to be in love with God. I find myself loving God even more as I love on my wife. Marriage was instituted by God for His glory, and it is such a beautiful thing.
Now, obviously, I still have much to grow into and learn. After all, I am only one month into a life long, grand adventure with my beautiful bride beside me. I know there is much ahead that we have not faced yet. But, in this one month today that I have shared with my wife, I have grown and learned so much. I can honestly say my love for God and my love for my wife have grown exponentially since last month. So further up and further in to this grand adventure of love!
For Christ's Glory!
Thoughts and musings on following Christ, becoming a Warrior Poet, and living as a Disciple.
Beautiful post on marriage! I too married my best friend three weeks ago and it is dramatic how the change has come in my life to love and serve her! I too feel that God had been preparing me over a long time for marriage, and it's a joy to be starting to walk in what he has been preparing for me all along. I'm sure you feel the same way!
ReplyDeleteWhen I was single, a friend of mine once told me that the harvest doesn't come immediately, but God has to till ground and plant the seed, then the seed has to take time to germinate before it even comes out of the ground. Once it comes out of the ground, then it must work to grow before it can blossom and reach maturity. Then comes the harvest. At the time, those were words of comfort, but also of wrestling thought. As I have come to know now, they are indeed comfort. I feel as in marriage, I am at the point where the plant is poking it's head through the ground and it has much growth before the harvest has to come, but it will be worth it! The same is true of faith; while I feel my faith is still growing, it hasn't reached full maturity yet or time for harvest. But God is doing the watering and performing the growth! What a good God we have!
I pray blessings over your new marriage and wish you many congratulations!
Thanks for sharing!
What a beautiful, godly post! Keep up the good work and may God bless you :)
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