Wedding season is upon us once more. In fact, it's been on for the past few months. And I absolutely love it. I always have. There's always something so special about Two lives becoming one. I have been to my fair share of weddings over the years, but this summer I had the privilege of being in two of my very best friends weddings, and there were some things that I observed that blew me away.
As a follower of Christ, weddings represent something far deeper than the joining of two lives. They symbolize Christ and his bride (the church). And that's part of why I love weddings so much. They are a literal picture of our Father's love for us. After all, if you stop to think about it from the beginning of time Christ has had your wedding day ordained. He has a specific plan and purpose for your life, even a specific person. Because when you seek his kingdom first, he will bring that person onto your path at some point or another. And that's tremendously exciting. But here's the best part, it's not just all about you.
During both of these weddings, I got to see the love that people in the lives of each couple had for those couples. This was demonstrated by their willingness to serve and do whatever they could to make the wedding day as special and as gorgeous as it could be. And that was again a representation of what the body of Christ is, or should be. A community that uplifts and helps wherever there is a need. It fills my spirit with joy just thinking about how amazing the willingness to serve was!!
And here's my favorite part of the weddings I was in this summer. Each couple has both individually and as a couple made Jesus Christ the center of their lives. He is the core of their existence and it was incredibly evident in their weddings, because they both had invited the Holy Spirit to be present at their weddings, and he was. Ceremonies that allow Him to come, are that much more amazing. There is a feeling that blankets the entire thing that you just can't quite describe. But it's one of the most phenomenal things you can experience on this earth. I can't imagine what it would be like to be a non-believer at a wedding like that, because the overwhelming sense of something more has to be an incredible feeling for someone who's never experienced it. The whole setting is different. The way the bride and groom look at each other, the vows they make are even more beautiful, everything is somehow deeper because of the love of Christ dwelling there.
And that's why weddings like that, couples like that, demonstrate true love. Not because there was this magical thing that pulled them together. It was the Spirit within each of them that drew them together. And it was a choice each of them made to stand by one another and love each other til death parts them. Because feelings of love will fade over time, but that commitment won't die if your anchor is The One True God. And that's so amazing. Wherever these couples end up, they will be serving The Lord. That's what true love is. It's never easy, it's not always fun. But it's beautiful and fulfilling because it was the call that came, and they answered.
After the incredible night we had at this last wedding, the other single girls and I were talking about how much hope we were filled with. Hope for the men that will someday enter our lives, whom we can stand beside and change this world with. And it wasn't just the young ones, the bride's mother and grandmother both said that they would settle for nothing less. And it made me so happy to realize that when I pray for my husband now, and think of him and what he's doing, our Savior is already behind the scenes preparing for us to meet. Preparing us for our true love.
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