First, my hubby and I went on a date. I love when we are able to get out of the house, on a night when we aren't super busy, and just talk and be with each other. It's so refreshing and so needed.
After that, I met up with my beautiful bestie who's getting married...and we started talking wedding plans! It's so exciting to see her excitement for being a wife in the near future. It makes my heart so happy. We ended our night by praying...and it was amazing. All of us that were there lifted up this wonderful couple and their future as a family. I am so blessed to be in their lives to be able to watch all of this take place.
Following that, I came home and watched a movie with the hubby. We rented Something Borrowed, because a) we're watching The Office all the way through right now and we love Jim and b) because it was a movie we'd planned to see in the theaters but never saw. I won't spoil the movie for you...but I was pretty disheartened with how it ended. There's so much unfaithfulness and infidelity throughout the whole movie...and it just made me sad.
After it was over, I couldn't help but contrast it to the rest of my evening.
My date night with my amazing husband...one of the ways we stay connected as one in our marriage.
My planning/prayer session with my friend who's getting married...a wonderful time of figuring out the details of how their marriage is going to come about...under God.
And then this movie full of people hurting friends, sleeping with people that were already in committed relationships...things that God despises.
(Taken on our first trip to CO)We've been going through doctrines of our faith with our college group...and we just finished studying God's covenants this week. We went through each of the different covenants God made with men, with the final covenant being the one established with Jesus. Understanding that covenant is a relationship with God on His terms...and that it's the perfect example of how He pursues us...well, there was nothing exemplifying this at all in that movie.
Marriage is a covenant, to God, of two people committing their lives to serve Him as one. It's a big deal. It's not something to be taken lightly and it's supposed to be lifelong.
While my hubby and I are not perfect, we made that covenant with God three and a half years ago, and we are sticking to it, no matter what. It's not optional...it's not only for a short time or until we get bored or whatever...it's 'til death do us part.
My friend is getting ready to make this same covenant...and she understands that it is a big deal. That it is to be kept until they die.
Tonight was a perfect example to me of how different the world is from those who follow Christ...or at least how different it should be. We were not meant to have affairs, or get divorces, or betray friends and loved ones...yet, when we give into temptation and sin, those things can happen. Tonight was a good reminder of how important it is to stay strong in Christ, to keep Him first in everything, and to truly think through the importance of a covenant (such as marriage) before actually agreeing to it. I know I fail God every single day...but that doesn't mean I shouldn't try to follow Him better.
"Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart."
(Hebrews 12:1-3, NIV)
This is my prayer.
(oh, and the cloud of witnesses referred to in that first verse? Read Hebrews 11. It's called the Hall of Faith...as it gives some examples of imperfect people who had great faith that God used in mighty ways)
1 comment:
My husband and I watched something borrowed last night too! I felt the same way about it. Sad. I remember a friend telling me that was why she didn't like eat pray love... Which I never saw. The way she put it was great, she said, "how can I celebrate something like that by enjoying this book?" (and then movie). Good point, and great post breeann!
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