This already promises to be a weird post, as I have no experience in a marriage relationship (or any romantic relationship for that matter). With that disclaimer I will begin. Yesterday, I was in a fabric store flipping through pattern books to figure out what kind of flower girl dress I should make for my sister to wear to my cousin's wedding. A wedding catalog caught my eye so I cracked it open to see what ideas it held. It did not take long for me to get sucked into the images of exotic locations, fantastic decorations, sumptuous dresses, and beautiful people. Weddings can be expensive to say the least.
When I came to the end, I closed the magazine, sad. Not because I was lamenting my gloriously single state, but because of society's bent view of love and marriage. Granted, I flipped through a wedding catalog, not a marriage catalog. Still, all the beauty and romance of those weddings passed away in one twenty-four hour period. I was left with the feeling that those weddings were mere celebrations of romance, not marriage.
Romance is a good thing, but it is not the point of marriage. Marriages based on ethereal, fleeting feelings usually crumble. A body has to commit to marriage for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and health, till death do you part. And the ultimate purpose of marriage is to glorify Christ. To portray Christ's relationship with His bride, the church. Marriage is a sanctifying process, just like every other relationship. Romance is gift God grants with marriage, but when you add real life to marriage, romance will not make all your troubles disappear. Marriage is a commitment. And those are my thoughts on the subject.
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