Brand Nu Marriage

How often have you taken a look at the vows you made on your wedding day? Have you ever? If you're like most of us, our vows are not normal reading for us. It's not that we don't care about them or that we want to forget them, but we simply take them for granted. But we took them, said them to our significant other. We made a promise. But do you even know if you are keeping it?

Today's message was a close look at the wedding service and the deep meaning of the marriage covenant. It was a time to remember the vows many of us have made and how rekindling the vows and the remembering the promises we made can mean a brand new marriage for us. Here are some highlights:

• Marriage was established by God and men and women were created to be together
• Marriage is a symbol of the sacrificial love of Christ and the kind of love we are to share
• We declare our intent to enter a holy marriage. (Holy is to be set apart; different from the norm or common; holy marriage is different than civil marriage, it is a higher expectation.)
• We declare our intent to love, without condition, not as a feeling, but as a choice.
• We declare our intent to comfort, showing compassion and mercy
• We declare our intent to honor, by knowing our spouses
• We declare our intent to keep, forsaking ALL others.
• Then we Vow all of these and especially to love and cherish until death.

God expects much out of marriage. It is an example, a symbol, of Christ's sacrificial love. And it's up to us to keep that marriage covenant. Look at your vows, say them again to your spouse. And keep your promise, Christ has!

Peace ><>

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