A marriage is an
exchange of a cross or many crosses throughout one’s married life. The cross is
the spouse and the crosses are either the spouse’s family members or neighbors,
relatives, friends and acquaintances that keep entering into your life on and
off.
Adjustments and
compromises in a marriage often lead to arguments, expectations, irritations
and hidden desires of separation.
When married
person prays to God for grace to accept one’s life partner as he or she is and
also to accept the spouse’s family as they are, then the marriage, over a
period of time, becomes a bed of roses notwithstanding the thorns that try to
stifle the growth in one’s married life.
When a wedding
ring is exchanged at the altar in the presence of God and many witnesses, it is
a symbolic gesture of an invisible cross being exchanged with a promise to
carry it always – in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health till
death alone separates. It is, thus, true that marriages are made in heaven, but
they are solemnized, celebrated and lived here on earth only through God’s
grace.
An Enormous Answer
John Dunne
writes of the impact of the resurrection upon humankind: "The Resurrection
is an enormous answer to the problem of death. The idea is that the Christian goes
with Christ through death to everlasting life. Death becomes an event, like
birth, that is lived through."
What a
magnificent statement of faith. Death is merely another event in the ongoing
process of life--something one lives through with Christ. The resurrection of
Jesus reinforces these words from The Wisdom of Solomon: "The souls of the
just are in God's hand, and torment shall not touch them...they are at
peace."
Ephesians
6:24
Grace to all who love our
Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.
Thoughts on This Verse....
Ephesians makes some of the
greatest declarations in the entire Bible about the grace of God. This one,
however, may be the very richest. Grace is offered to us whether we accept it
or not. But, grace is with us in rich abundance and blessing as we love Jesus
and hang on to his love with a grip of faith that is unwavering.
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