Running way late today. My day started early this morning with guiding a pheasant hunt and then church soon after the hunt was done. I did however start my day with some Door County Pumpkin Spice Coffee.
Yesterday we celebrated Valentines Day. So I guess this message is for those who are married or will be married. Valentines day will always be the holiday for love. Couples exchange card and in many instances small or lavish gifts. I think that it is a very nice way to say that the other person in your life is loved.
But let's take a moment to really look at loving another person in marriage. Most wedding vows have some form of the words, "For better or worse, in sickness and in health, for richer or poorer, until death do we part".
We will take a peek to discuss for better or worse which seems to also cover the rest. When we truly love someone we see them at their worst and we see them at their best. It could be at their sickest day when you hold them while they vomit. Or it could be at their best when they receive a promotion at work. Each relationship has two people with faults and most people never really change. So when the other person after many years still squeezes the tooth paste from the middle of the tube, is it a big enough deal to even mention it? We choose to say "I do". The I do means that we will love them despite their faults and not try to change what God has created. Many arguments and sleepless nights happen because we took a small issue and made it the hill to die on.
Let's look at love again.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7(NKJV)
4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Man, this verse takes the sting out of any argument. For better or worse. You can be your best when the other is at their worst, just by loving them and praying for them.
God bless,
Marty
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