Weddings and Great Days
Do you spend a lot of time in bookstores? I do. Amazon definitely gets my business, but nothing beats browsing a bookstore. Especially a used bookstore. You truly can find a book about anything. I always find the way books are categorized very interesting. Like the time I saw a Deepak Chopra book right beside Oswald Chambers’ My Utmost for His Highest. Though they both talk about Jesus, their beliefs about Him are not the same. Or when I saw Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion in the “religion” section. In case you do not know, Dawkins is a renown atheist.
In today’s Christian publishing world, it is common to brand an edition of the Bible. Examples include: The ESV Study Bible, The Archeology Bible, The Ryrie Study Bible, The Apologetics Bible, The Student Bible, and I can go on and on and on and… you get the point. As you might have guessed by now, I found one of these branded Bibles that I felt the need to talk about.
The Bride’s Bible: Preparing Spiritually for the Most Important Day of Your Life caught my eye. Are they telling me that the best day of my wife’s life is done? Is the best day of my marriage done? Is the most spiritually important day for my wife done and gone? Is the pinnacle of life the wedding day?
We live in a culture that worships the bride and her wedding day. And the so called “Christian world” endorses it. Its the day that culture says it is OK for someone to be selfish. It is the bride’s day and she should get what she wants. I fail to see the Bible precedence for this. Please do not think I am taking an opportunity to get my punches in on the gender war.
I want better for my wife. I want more important days for my wife and myself than our wedding day. Our wedding day was the beginning of greater days. As we grow spiritually and grow in our marriage relationship we will have greater days. Jesus taught us that to be great we must become the servant of everyone (Matthew 18:1-5, Mark 9:30-32, Luke 9:43-45). How could the wedding day be the greatest day of someone’s life if it is usually one of the most selfish? This goes for guys too. The woman may idolize the wedding day, but the guy will idolize the wedding night.
We must think about marriage differently. I implore if you have not yet married that you will spend more time preparing spiritually for your marriage then planning the actual wedding day.
If the “big” day has passed you then I encourage you to have greater days than your wedding day with your spouse. You do this by serving each other, serving other people, and most of all serving Jesus.
One day over shadows all great days. The greatest day of my life is when I believed that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6). The day I believed that Jesus died for me and cleanses me of my sin (Romans 10:9-10). This is the day that has allowed me to have truly great days in my life.
I think you get the idea how this “branded” Bible caught my eye. Deception is many times masked in truth.
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Oh man! Ben and I were just talking about this. I told him that our wedding day was definately not the best day of my life and we had a good life. I don’t think it was for either of us. So much stress and nerves. We have had much better days! Individually, I know I have had much greater days. The example of giving your life to Christ as the greatest day in your life–so true. As soon as I read that, I thought “hmm. pretty much” Thanks Trevor for making my desk job a little more up lifting.