“For this reason I bow my knees
before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its
name. That He would grant you, according
to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in
the inner man, so that Christ may dwell
in your hearts through faith; and that you being rooted and grounded in love,
may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length
and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge,
that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God” (Eph. 3:14-19).
Hey
Gang: I have gained a special interest
in heaven in the few years. When you are
older-than dirt your thoughts do tend to want to know what is beyond the
veil. I really get excited when I read
that Jesus is going to come on a white stallion and call His children up to
meet Him in the air. I get even more excited
when I read we will then go, as part of the bride of Christ, and be wed to the
bridegroom at the Wedding Feast of the Lamb.
As I thought
about that glorious day, my mind turned to another glorious day more than 58
years ago, when I stood at the altar of the Eagle Church of God and saw the
pearl of great price who would soon be my bride. It saddens my heart when I see what has
happened to God’s formula for marriage.
I do not
believe that God created anything that was not perfect in every way including
when he created man and woman and said, ‘leave your parents and become yoked
together in covenant relationship with each other.’ And then He added, “What is put together under covenant, Let it never be put asunder.
Valentine’s
Day has rolled around once again and we have searched for just the right card
to say what we cannot say in person. The
tragedy of depending on a card to convey our feelings is they end up in the trashcan
much like many marriages.
Did you know
that Satan hates marriage? He hates for
people to love each other and will do anything that you allow him to do, to destroy
it. If we do not have the love of God
in our heart, we, and our marriage, is like a sitting duck with a huge bull’s
eye on our back; all the ingredients for
a successful marriage are found in Jesus.
(love, joy, peace, patience,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control” (Gal;
5:22-23).
God’s
formula for a perfect marriage: “There is no fear in love; but perfect love
casts out fear, because fear involves punishment and the one who fears is not
perfected in love. We love because He
first loved us.” (I John 4:18-19).
“Beloved let us love one another, for
love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God,
for God is love” (1 Jn. 4:7-8).
“Beyond all these things put on love,
which is the perfect bond of unity” (Col. 3:14).
“For I am convinced that neither
death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things
to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be
able to separate us and our marriage from the love of God, which is in Christ
Jesus our Lord.” (Rom. 8:38-39).
Do you want
to give your wife a very special valentine this extended Valentine Day? I mean even you macho guys? Sit down in the quiet of the evening after
the kids are tucked away in their beds and read to her, and her to him, the
thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians 13.
Note verse 8, “Love never fails,
all else may fail but love never fails.” That my friends works every day – we truly do
reap what we sow! And that we can take to the bank.
Blessings,
Gramps
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