the marriage picture

Marriage is the best human picture of our heavenly relationship with the Lord. Just as one spouse is formed differently in body, emotion and mind from the other so are we formed differently from our heavenly Lord.  Just as each spouse helps complete the other to travel through this life, so we are completed in our relationship with the Lord for eternity.  There is no more intimate relationship among human beings than marriage and there is no more intimate relationship spiritually than between the Lord and His people.  Just as marriage is a relationship built on promise and absolute commitment for life, so our relationship with the Lord is founded on a Covenant that the Lord is committed to forever.  Of course the biggest difference is that we are both people in husband wife relationships, equally flawed and with many shortcomings.  We need a marriage that we know will last if it's to be for eternity.  Fortunately, our heavenly marriage partner is our strength and dependable now and forever.

 

Revelation 19:6Then I heard what sounded like a great multitude, like the roar of rushing waters and like loud peals of thunder, shouting:
   "Hallelujah!
      For our Lord God Almighty reigns.
 7Let us rejoice and be glad
      and give him glory!
   For the wedding of the Lamb has come,
      and his bride has made herself ready.
 8Fine linen, bright and clean,
      was given her to wear." (Fine linen stands for the righteous acts of the saints.)

 

blessings,

Rob Smith