Church made me think about marriage and relationships. We're going through the Song of Solomon. It made me think about how serious wedding vows are. I'm definitely writing my own for if I get married someday. Like, right now. I mean, it's a rough draft. But here we go.
In the presence of family and friends that make up our community, I'm making a solemn vow today about what kind of wife I promise to be for you for the rest of our lives. Here's what I'm going to do.
I will daily let go of clinging to you for my spiritual and emotional needs, and run to God WITH you instead. I understand that submitting to you as my husband means letting go of my sinful desire to completely control our lives, our relationship and our future. I trust you and your heart for the Lord enough that to submit in that way to you is an honor.
I understand that marrying you doesn't make any of our problems go away. I actually expect some of them to get worse, and for new issues to appear further down the road. But I'm okay with that. I don't need you to have all the answers. I'm excited to fail with you and learn with you. I'm excited to be sick, poor, happy, sad and everything else with you, because we have God, and that's why we can get married in the first place.
You are my best friend. You're my priority. And I can't love you at all without God giving me love for you every second of every day. You can count on me to be good at that some days, and reeeaally bad at that some others.
So I vow here in the presence of God and all our family and friends to faithfully depend on Him and not you. I vow to celebrate and enjoy life and all its trials and pains with you as my partner and deepest friend, because you're the only person on this earth I want to spend the rest of my whole life with. Let's keep drawing from God's eternal grace for each other and growing in faith in Him for the rest of our lives...together!
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