Monday, 5 March 2012
To Have and To Hold
"...to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, 'til death do us part."
Today is not Valentine's Day. It's not even my Wedding Anniversary. (My husband and I got married January 25, 1999.) But I know that the vow I made that fateful day is to be kept and remembered day in and day out, in infinity for the rest of my life.
I have to be honest, after 13 years of being married I haven't memorized the whole vow yet... until now. I remembered I made the vow not only with my husband, but with God as well. It has to be kept in my heart and mind and to be fulfilled every moment.
In Ephesians 5:22-23, it reads, "Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word..."
In order for me to solemly fulfill my marriage vow to my husband, I need to be grounded as well on God's words, for in the equation of Husband + Wife = Marriage, the plus sign is really a cross which stands for Christ, which should be in the center of our union.
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