It takes a lot of trust to say, "Here I am, the good, bad, and ugly. Please love me through it all." Marriage is choosing to love each other even though you see the good, bad and ugly.
I knew that on my wedding day I was saying to my husband that I submit to the authority that God has given you over me and I trust you to love me as Christ commanded. I wanted him to know that I choose to be "naked" before him, on our wedding day and throughout our marriage. I expressed this through my "barefeet." To me it was the perfect picture of laying myself bare before him. Marriage is such an amazing picture of Christ love for us. He sees the good, bad and ugly and still chose to die on the cross to save us from eternal condemnation. He desires for us to come "barefoot" before Him and accept his free gift of salvation. I leave you with the verse Rick and I had read at our wedding. Ruth 1:16-17 But Ruth said, "Do not urge me to leave you or turn back from following you; for where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God. Where you die, I will die and there I will be buried. Thus may the Lord do to me, and worse, if anything but death parts you and me."
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