I recently was honoured to witness my daughter getting married to a wonderful man. When it was known that they were going to get married, I took every opportunity during our visiting time to share my thoughts on marriage life and adult life in general.
My parents never spoke to me about marriage and adult life which I believe would have made an impact on me and my siblings if they took the time to speak to us. I saw romance and marriage through movies, through friends which I realize today are not realistic but just fairy-tale stories.
I had the opportunity to speak at their wedding reception and my message to both of them was from a biblical perspective with a trust that it would be a blessing. Below was my speech.
Marriage between a man and a woman is a beautiful union installed from the beginning of our existence. Without marriage there will be no family and no nation. The God of the Bible, created a man and woman to become a family and a nation of families.
The scripture (bible) talks about a man leaving his parents’ house and joining to his wife as they become one. There is a much deeper meaning to when a man and woman join together and became one but in short it is the sexual union between a husband and wife.
Sadly, there is a wicked force that will take no time to attack this marriage with attacks been continues throughout their life. Married couples should be prepared at all times and as a team of one fight these forces of attacks.
A marriage should be a closed quarter with nobody allowed to enter unless a partner or both allow it to be opened. Partners need to listen to each other’s concerns, one or both will notice something is going astray and then act on it immediately.
Being locked together as one union will have a stronger chance of overcoming these bad forces of attacks.
A husband and wife can be even stronger together if they have this force with them been in union as one.
This force is so strong that when both husband and wife have this equally their marriage will be rock solid making attacks on the marriage difficult.
That force is known as Love.
There are two types of love. Let me briefly explain the two types of love I have noticed over my life span and how I came to understand love at the age I’m now.
The first love is the worldly love. I call this the bubble gum love; starting off with a gum full of flavour, chewing the gum until the flavour is gone and the jaw is sore of chewing, the gum is spit out and replaced with a new one. This type of love is mostly found in movies, love story books etc. This love is generally expressed through worldly gifts etc.
The second love is to me “true love”. This type of love cannot be bought, as it comes from deep within a person. Many will say it’s from your heart but it’s much deeper than that and I can only express it as coming from your inner soul.
This is how I came to understand this true love but for others it may be in a different manner. Yahuah asks us to love Him with all of our heart, soul and mind. How is it possible to love someone that you cannot see and then on top of this He says ‘If you love Me, do My will.’
Took me a long time to understand this love but eventually after committing my life to His will was I able to grasp this love He asked from me. This revelation changed my life and my love for my children was expressed differently than before.
It’s a love that does not fade over time, in fact the longer you two are together the stronger the love becomes.
This is the love our Heavenly Father speaks about when a man joins to his wife and they become one. This love hurts when there is a separation. It is like a part of you is torn from you and you don’t complete recover.
This is the love we need to have for Yahuah and then we can enjoy this love for our wife or husband and children; its true love…..
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