Daily devotion – planning for the big day
Gen 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Planning a wedding is a significant event for the bride and the groom. The date, the location for the ceremony, choosing the minister, and finding a reception location that will not break the budget are just a few of the preparations that need to be made.
Then there is the bride’s dress and the colour of the bridesmaids’ outfits. What will the men wear?
For the minister, there is the counselling and the legal paperwork to commence and complete the process. Nowadays, there are no less than five separate documents to be filled in, each with great detail and ensuring all is correct.
Yes, much goes into planning and preparing for the wedding day.
But I find that more planning goes into the ceremony than the marriage. That is planning for the years that follow that day, Lord willing, until ‘death do us part’.
Maybe you have young children, teens or young adults who have not yet come of age or arrived at the place in their lives of finding the person God has to be their husband or wife.
Even counselling pre-marriage, which was a prerequisite for all church marriages in years past by most traditional denominations, has become something that many young couples shy away from, and most older couples believe it is not needed. Thankfully, not all!
Yet each will plan and prepare diligently for the ‘special day”.
I used to have a book of great sayings, billboards from God in a sense, and one of them said, “Great Wedding, now invite Me to the Marriage!” – God.
The Bible contains the wisdom, the wonder, and all that is needed to pray for and live out in a godly marriage. Yet, it says little about the actual ceremony.
You may have been married for so many years as you read this devotion. It is never too late to seek God’s Word on how to be a husband, a wife, a married couple, or a family from the pages of the Bible.
God’s Word details the roles and responsibilities of being a husband, wife, father and mother.
Ephesians 5 and 1 Peter 3 are two great foundation chapters where you, as a couple, can begin to follow God’s plan for marriage. It’s never too late!