Husband, Wife, God?

Have you ever felt the want to be married? Have you ever had the desire to be with a person for the rest of your life and live in happiness with them? Oh you have. Everyone has. You were made to love. Not only were you made to love, but you were made to be loved. That moment when someone says, "I love you," and your heart stops and you think..."Is this for real? could he really mean what he is saying to me right now? is he crazy?" Most girls, and I mean all have had these questions run through their head many times when some guy would say these words to them on some perfect night under the stars and then someday down the road get married to him/her. But in these words do we really understand the concept of what it means to love. The truth about forever in a relationship united by not one, not two, but three people. 

Marriage. What is marriage? The Webster dictionary states that marriage is, "The state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in a consensual and contractual relationship." The state of being united to one of the opposite sex; The state of having the last name of the male; The state of living with that person and sharing your every move and moment with them.What the world describes as "The American Dream/Life." We dream of wanting to be loved by someone, and long to be "wanted". The word wanted has become a big issue between our younger women and men. Deceiving us as a tool to twist our hearts and minds in a way that that has to be a major in a relationship. To feel....wanted. Which most of the time is a problem in marriages. We worry that we are not wanted or longed for. We tell ourselves that we are no good for any guy/girl out there. We lie to ourselves by saying that "no one loves us."  And after that, we wait just for someone to....love us.

I would like to bring up the verse that most weddings use for the vows. It's in the book of Ruth. “Entreat me not to leave you, or to turn back from following after you; for wherever you go, I will go; and wherever you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God, my God. Where you die, I will die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me” (Ruth 1:16-17). This pledge that Ruth made to Naomi could fit into a modern wedding ceremony if the couple really understands it. For Christians, marriage goes beyond the earthly covenant also, as a divine picture of the relationship between Christ and his Bride, the Church. It is a spiritual representation of our relationship with God. As we look at and dream of our wedding one day, it now only shows us the beautiful story of our lives living as one, but it shows us a little glimpse of what Christ will feel like when we get to heaven. What He will feel like when we see Him face to face at the alter. He will cry, and smile, and cover his eyes at the sight of you. And you will be sitting at his feet and crying and thanking him, for the continual love and unconditional love and promise He has been to you. And to be wearing white in His presence. We will all be wearing white because of the blood he shed for us on the cross to make us white as snow. 

In 1 Corinthians 13, we see the distinct definition of love. Without love....these are not able to grasp. "Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love." 

To love someone is to know God. And through this we see that we cannot enter a relationship without the God of romance, love and unity, come in and be the foundation and path way to a beautiful marriage. I have realized through my relationship with God, that I can't love on my own strength. It's Christ who gives me the love I need to love the one I am suppose o love and cherish my whole life. Why go to the world for love, when the man who made love himself is waiting for you to come and be His one and only, and in return give you the desires of your heart. 

Psalm 37:4, "Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart." Give God your heart, and He will place it into the hands of a man that is worth knowing & taking hold of your heart.