Covenant

Your Maker is your husband--Isaiah 54.

When we come to know who we are in Christ, who our Protector, Provider, and Faithful One is, not just in us, but in this world, we also enter a place of being able to pour out into a spouse. I am not married. But to my Maker, I am. A covenant of love is what He has established with his children, and to which we are bound. A girl friend of mine challenged me today to hold on to the covenant to Christ that I have made, through which He chose to make an analogy of marriage. A husband and a wife give of themselves for the other. When Christ is the center of each partner's life, how much more will that giving be, how much more love, more faithfulness, more grace, more forgiveness, more trust, each person will have to offer.

A man, a warrior. A woman, a warrior. A man, beautiful. A woman, beautiful. A man, loving. A woman, loving. A man, honorable. A woman, honorable. These are not contingent upon the other but strengthen and bond the other. It's not, "a man, a warrior" first, and then "a woman, a warrior" after. Rather, it's both created, and both unified.

As we find rest in a faithful, trustworthy, and strong Maker, so too will a spouse find rest in a faithful, trustworthy, and strong spouse who abides in the presence of that Lord. God will never error. A husband or a wife will. But when each person's source is the Lord, then marrying a person (who will fail) is okay. It's inevitable.