Just Between You, Me, & God 6-4-2012

I had the pleasure of attending the wedding of my niece Lisa and her fiancé Josh on Saturday.  It was a simple and beautiful wedding filled with laughter and joy on both sides of the aisle.   I liked their emphasis on friends and family and not getting caught up in all the hype.  Many weddings on TV are shown as extravagant, over budgeted affairs where everyone is at each other’s throats and no one is focused on the spiritual outcome which will help guide the couple through inevitable rough times and help preserve their happiness through Christ.  Weddings play a major role in the Gospels and throughout the Bible.  God instituted marriage with Adam and Eve.  Genesis 2: 24, “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh."  Jesus very first miracle was performed at a wedding that He was attending when He turned the water into wine.  Matthew chapter 22 tells the parable of the wedding banquet where those who were chosen by God to be His chosen people refuse to follow and believe, in fact they reject the offers of God to come to His wedding banquet.  Now God opens the wedding feast to any and all who will believe and follow.  Jesus is depicted as the Bride-Groom and the Church (that’s us, the believers) as Christ’  bride.  In Revelation 19, starting in verse 6, John witnesses in Heaven, the wedding  between Christ and the Church.  “Hallelujah!  For our Lord God Almighty reigns.  Let us rejoice and be glad and give Him glory!  For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and His bride has made herself ready.  Fine linen, bright and clean, was given her to wear.”  Then the angel said to me, “Write:  Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!”  I don’t know about you, but that’s one wedding I don’t want to miss.  As unworthy as we are, through His crucifixion and resurrection we have been made clean and presentable as the bride of Christ.  The Grooms Father has paid for and arranged everything in order that we may celebrate this ultimate relationship with Him, forever and ever.  Embrace Jesus today as your Lord and Savior and 1000 years from now we will celebrate our wedding to Christ together, around the table at the wedding feast.  God bless you Lisa and Josh, Pastor Dean


Pastor Dean is the Outreach & Ministries Pastor for LHF.