So being engaged is really pretty awesome. It's also brought home lots of things (i.e.-responsibilities) that will soon be entering into my world. We have been listening to John Piper's sermons on marriage that he is doing currently, and a lot of things are standing out in my mind...Like Mark chapter 10, verses 7-8. Especially verse 8. "What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate." I mean, that's huge. It's also awesome...especially in today's culture of serial marriages. Once we get married, nobody on earth can seperate us...especially when you look at the next few verses (which you should do). Huge, and rather astounding. Our view of marriage in the west is, at times, rather like our view of God. Look at John chapter 1, verses 5-10. God, who made the world (and marriage, look at Gen. 2:18-25), isn't recognized by the things/beings he created. Very strange really. Perhaps that's why our view of marriage is so warped and, dare I say it, rather perverted (not perverted in the register with your local police sense, but the older, original sense)....especially when we see the type of relationship we are called to have-marriage on earth is a mirror, an everyday example of the relationship between Christ and the church. As husbands (future tense for me at the moment), men are called to love their wives as Christ loves the church...for a good picture of this-look at the cross. For an easier example to understand, at least for me-look at the book of Hosea in the Old Testament. Eye opening, at least to me. Huge. All that to say-marriage, it seems, is more than the crazy love at the beginning of being engaged...it's a fulltime commitment to glorifying God through the relationship He has seen fit to bless us with. Super Huge.
No comments:
Post a Comment