Aside from Father’s Day and Graduations, the month of June is known as the month of weddings.  When people get engaged one of the first questions the bride-to-be is asked is, “When is the wedding or Are you going to have a June wedding?”

Much attention is given to the wedding ceremony and usually little attention is given to the start of the marriage. If you examine the preparations for a wedding and see how much work, money and how many people are involved so that the ceremony can be a success, it can be “mind-blowing.”  Imagine everything put into making one day perfect instead of building a foundation for a life-time. Now think about marriage from a spiritual perspective.  Two individuals are making a life-time agreement in front of God, their families, and friends, to love, honor and cherish each other for the rest of their lives until death separates them.

Take moment and think back to when you first came to Christ.  Remember the new member’s class you attended, the hours of bible study, the invitation to family and friends to witness what was to be the outward sign of your commitment to God and finally the actual water baptism.   If you look closely, there are similarities between both events.  The one thing that is very different is the length of time of the commitment being made.

A man and a woman make a limited agreement/commitment to each other based on the length of time each will live and whether the terms of the marriage contract are upheld. When a person gets saved, he or she is making a covenant with God to love Him, honor Him and behave/live in a manner that He would be pleased with. The wonderful thing about when God made His commitment to man, it was based on His unconditional love toward man. The commitment isn’t based on any acts or deeds man does rather it is based on what Christ did at Calvary. God sent His Son Jesus to die for us.

Even when we mess things up, God doesn’t just divorce us.  He continues to love us.  John 3:16 says it best, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

The next time you think about a wedding/covenant, remember the covenant relationship that you entered into with God when you got saved, because of His love and commitment made to you.

 

Blessings.