My First 5 years of Marriage
Wow, seems like it was yesterday when I said I DO. Time really does fly, and its been a journey and I just had to write a blog about it :) May 17, 2011 made 5 years for my wife and I. People say that the first 5 years of marriage are the most difficult. It was definitely hard but God was with us the ENTIRE time. My wife and I have been together for 9 years in total but it seems like our life really began together when we got married May 17,2006. It was when God began to strip us of our own wants and desires. Marriage is all about sacrifice and putting the other persons desires before your own. I've been blessed to say that my wife and I are really good friends and we talk like friends would talk. People always notice how close we look and how they wish they had what we have. We wouldn't have anything apart from our relationship with Christ. How did we make it through the arguments and the hard times? Prayer and two people who understood that divorce wasn't an option. Marriage is God's design and it is his idea, if we try to do marriage our own way without following what the scriptures teach about it, its a recipe for disaster. Being married has taught me to be selfless and it has humbled me a lot over the years. I never thought I could love a person as much as I love my wife. Having a godly wife is better then being rich. We've both seen God work in miraculous ways in our lives and its been awesome. I pray that if you are married or engaged that you and your partner would follow Christ and his teachings on marriage. Ephesians 5 reads...
22(AR) Wives,(AS) submit to your own husbands,(AT) as to the Lord. 23For(AU) the husband is the head of the wife even as(AV) Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is(AW) himself its Savior. 24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit(AX) in everything to their husbands.
25(AY) Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and(AZ) gave himself up for her, 26that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by(BA) the washing of water(BB) with the word, 27so(BC) that he might present the church to himself in splendor,(BD) without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.[a]28In the same way(BE) husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, 30because(BF) we are members of his body. 31(BG) "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and(BH) the two shall become one flesh." 32This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. 33However,(BI) let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she(BJ) respects her husband.