Picture this,
you just got married.
By public proclamation at your wedding, you’ve told everyone you love your husband.
Dearly, right?
Your goal in this marriage is to have a healthy, thriving one, that would be the assumption, right?
Imagine....
immediately after getting married you decided….
not to come home every day or night.
You figured it’s only necessary to be home, let’s say.. once a week.
How do you think, over the course of time, your marriage would begin to unfold?
More loving?
More intimate?
More deeply enmeshed with each other?
Fast forward, 5 months in…
a friend asking you,
“Hey, how’s it going, newlywed?”
Your response might be something along the lines of:
“Eh, it’s not as great as I thought…we don’t seem to connect or understand each other much.
Other people seem so happy in their marriages, I don’t understand it?
Why isn’t our love, like that?”
I’d think for the friend listening,
if you confessed to only spending one day a week with your husband,
there would be a pretty clear, effective and relatively easy change
to make to see results that said friend would most likely suggest.
Let’s say you take your friend’s advice,
you decide to start hanging with your husband…
only lunches every week.
Things start to change,
you start to grow deeper together.
Lunches turn to dinners.
Before you know it…
you’re with each other every day!
Your relationship is the best it's ever been!!
I know.. I know…
this is crazy because marriage doesn’t work this way Casey.
What ridiculous story am I telling?
Why am I even talking us through this scenario ?
Well….
Because the scenario above is an example of what a large majority of the church does,
and then blames god for the relationship….
Let me make it clear,
I’m not casting stones.
I did it too.
“He doesn’t talk to me”
“I’ve never experienced a miracle.”
“I’m not loved by him.”
How can we know someone we don’t spend time with?
How can we experience someone we don’t invite into our life to encounter?
How can we love or be loved by someone we’ve kept at complete arms distance…
or worse, miles away.
In order to get more god,
You’ve got to give god more…
More of what….?
It’s simple, actually.
You🥰.
That’s all he wants.
Like any relationship,
your time is the perfect place to start.
Your heart should follow too.
If it sounds overwhelming.
Start small.
He’s not asking you to run a marathon right away.
He’s just asking you to show up for conditioning first, consistently.
That dreamy, head over heels in love,
don’t know how to live without husband you hear people gush about(Jesus) ..he’s real.
He invited you into a marriage with him too.
Do you want the real one,
Or a manufactured one?
Think about your own marriage
(if applicable)…
Marriage takes time.
Sacrifice.
Commitment.
Love.
And in return it gives us the very best, most profound love of our lives, hopefully.
Well folks…
There’s better news than
real life marriage love.
Jesus IS the love of your real & spiritual life.
You heart was made for him
by him.
We’ve been searching ever since
the garden to fill that god shaped hole.
If you’re rolling your eyes at this,
it’s because you just don’t know he’s the love of your life yet…
But, one day by your choice or his coming-you will know.
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