It’s often been said ...
"A wedding lasts a day, but a marriage lasts a lifetime."
"A wedding lasts a day, but a marriage lasts a lifetime."
You have waited and prayed for this "special someone" for quite some time.
You are SURE that this is the one you will spend your life with.
Through the joys and the sorrows, together you will stand strong against the storms that will come your way.
Yes, this is the beginning.
The beginning of a life together ~ no matter what may come your way.
While we love the big celebration -- two hearts becoming one, the flowers, the matching bridesmaid dresses, crying relatives (and sometimes even the chocolate fountain), we know that a wedding day is just the beginning.
The real journey starts when all the decorations have come down, goodbyes have been said, and there are two people left who’ve been joined together for a lifetime.
What an amazing, challenging, and life-changing experience.
One thing is for certain:
The journey is not always easy or predictable, but God has promised to guide you every step of the way.
Are you getting married soon?
Or maybe you were married recently?
It’s a great time to remember His promises for your new life together.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12
“Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their efforts. For if either falls, his companion can lift him up; but pity the one who falls without another to lift him up. Also, if two lie down together, they can keep warm; but how can one person alone keep warm? And if someone overpowers one person, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not easily broken.”
These verses highlight the importance of doing life together –
no longer seeing ourselves as alone but as
two ... two as "one" connected by the ONE (Christ).
This can be tough for the fiercely independent among us.
We may not like having to run our decisions by someone.
We may enter a marriage after years of living the single life,
and that takes a little (or a lotta) adjusting.
You are SURE that this is the one you will spend your life with.
Through the joys and the sorrows, together you will stand strong against the storms that will come your way.
Yes, this is the beginning.
The beginning of a life together ~ no matter what may come your way.
While we love the big celebration -- two hearts becoming one, the flowers, the matching bridesmaid dresses, crying relatives (and sometimes even the chocolate fountain), we know that a wedding day is just the beginning.
The real journey starts when all the decorations have come down, goodbyes have been said, and there are two people left who’ve been joined together for a lifetime.
What an amazing, challenging, and life-changing experience.
One thing is for certain:
The journey is not always easy or predictable, but God has promised to guide you every step of the way.
Are you getting married soon?
Or maybe you were married recently?
It’s a great time to remember His promises for your new life together.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12
“Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their efforts. For if either falls, his companion can lift him up; but pity the one who falls without another to lift him up. Also, if two lie down together, they can keep warm; but how can one person alone keep warm? And if someone overpowers one person, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not easily broken.”
These verses highlight the importance of doing life together –
no longer seeing ourselves as alone but as
two ... two as "one" connected by the ONE (Christ).
This can be tough for the fiercely independent among us.
We may not like having to run our decisions by someone.
We may enter a marriage after years of living the single life,
and that takes a little (or a lotta) adjusting.
Remember that if God calls us into a new season, it’s because He has something greater to share with us. In marriage, that means the joy of having a partner, a helper,
a constant “got-your-back” teammate.
Two people bound by Him have a greater strength than either of them ever had alone.
Hebrews 10:24-25
“And let us watch out for one another to provoke love and good works, not neglecting to gather together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging each other, and all the more as you see the day approaching.”
One way to keep a marriage healthy and vibrant is to practice these verses in Hebrews daily. It may be as simple as an uplifting quote or Scripture on the steering wheel or bathroom mirror. Or it might be a particularly difficult season for one spouse that the other can help talk and pray them through. Sometimes it’s about seeing God’s gifts in one another and drawing them out.
One of the true joys in marriage is being able to see and speak into one another’s lives in a way that no one else can.
1 John 3:16
“This is how we have come to know love: He laid down his life for us.
We should also lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.”
We know what real love is because “Jesus Christ laid down his life for us,”
and we’re called to do the same for one another.
The journey of marriage gives us countless opportunities to practice this.
Wedded bliss and romantic feelings are wonderful, but the real groundwork of love is laid when we lay down our lives for one another.
Sometimes it isn’t about a big dramatic event (though it certainly could be!)
but it’s often the little daily acts of surrender and service that add up to a
life of sacrifice for one another.
1 Corinthians 13:4-13
“Love is patient, love is kind. Love does not envy, is not boastful,
is not arrogant, is not rude, is not self-seeking, is not irritable,
and does not keep a record of wrongs.
Love finds no joy in unrighteousness but rejoices in the truth.
It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends…. 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 put aside childish things.
For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror, but then face to face.
Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, as I am fully known.
Now these three remain: faith, hope, and love—but the greatest of these is love.”
The words in Paul’s famous passage on love are among the most recognized in the New Testament. And though we’re used to hearing them often, it’s good to remember that they’re much more than a lovely touch at a wedding ceremony;
they’re like a blueprint for a whole lifetime of love.
It’s good to keep these verses close by– maybe on a nightstand,
posted on the fridge, or somewhere else they can be read often.
Wedded bliss is wonderful, but the real groundwork -
it comes when we lay aside our own priorities and make our spouse our priority in life.
With God, all things are possible!
a constant “got-your-back” teammate.
Two people bound by Him have a greater strength than either of them ever had alone.
Hebrews 10:24-25
“And let us watch out for one another to provoke love and good works, not neglecting to gather together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging each other, and all the more as you see the day approaching.”
One way to keep a marriage healthy and vibrant is to practice these verses in Hebrews daily. It may be as simple as an uplifting quote or Scripture on the steering wheel or bathroom mirror. Or it might be a particularly difficult season for one spouse that the other can help talk and pray them through. Sometimes it’s about seeing God’s gifts in one another and drawing them out.
One of the true joys in marriage is being able to see and speak into one another’s lives in a way that no one else can.
1 John 3:16
“This is how we have come to know love: He laid down his life for us.
We should also lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.”
We know what real love is because “Jesus Christ laid down his life for us,”
and we’re called to do the same for one another.
The journey of marriage gives us countless opportunities to practice this.
Wedded bliss and romantic feelings are wonderful, but the real groundwork of love is laid when we lay down our lives for one another.
Sometimes it isn’t about a big dramatic event (though it certainly could be!)
but it’s often the little daily acts of surrender and service that add up to a
life of sacrifice for one another.
1 Corinthians 13:4-13
“Love is patient, love is kind. Love does not envy, is not boastful,
is not arrogant, is not rude, is not self-seeking, is not irritable,
and does not keep a record of wrongs.
Love finds no joy in unrighteousness but rejoices in the truth.
It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends…. 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 put aside childish things.
For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror, but then face to face.
Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, as I am fully known.
Now these three remain: faith, hope, and love—but the greatest of these is love.”
The words in Paul’s famous passage on love are among the most recognized in the New Testament. And though we’re used to hearing them often, it’s good to remember that they’re much more than a lovely touch at a wedding ceremony;
they’re like a blueprint for a whole lifetime of love.
It’s good to keep these verses close by– maybe on a nightstand,
posted on the fridge, or somewhere else they can be read often.
Wedded bliss is wonderful, but the real groundwork -
it comes when we lay aside our own priorities and make our spouse our priority in life.
With God, all things are possible!
