I attended my niece’s wedding on Sunday. Weddings are a celebration of love – and a commitment between a man and a woman forever. This one was no exception. My niece and her husband were ready to make that commitment in front of friends and family. I pray for God’s blessings on their lives together as husband and wife.
A wedding represents the lifetime of devotion from the parents of the bride and groom. So much love, attention, and teaching goes into the raising of a child to become the person someone falls in love with.
From the day the child is born countless prayers go up to our Heavenly Father. Parents pray for their children’s marriages well in advance. They pray for their future spouses too.
The festivities that come with a wedding are reflections of love. It is not the amount of money spent that is important. We all know money does not buy the love a family creates. Instead, it is all the personal touches that show how much we truly care.
So much work went on behind the scenes yesterday – acts of service from the kindest people. I am thankful that my brother, sister-in-law and niece are so well-loved. I am also grateful for the groom’s family and friends who are so special to him. His parents put so much love into raising him!
It is God who created marriages. In Genesis 2:18, God said “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.” None of the birds or livestock God made was right for Adam. Then God made woman from Adam’s own rib.
She was just right. Notice Adam said, “At last this is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; She shall be called woman because she was taken out of man.” Notice Adam said, ‘At last.’ Finally – after all those animals that were not right – at last here is the perfect helper for me.
The family unit was instituted by God Himself. Genesis 2:24 reads, “For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.”
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