Thursday, 26 February 2009

• As a bride you loved me...

  ¹ The word of the LORD came to me: ² "Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem:
         " I remember the devotion of your youth,
         how as a bride you loved me
         and followed me through the desert,
         through a land not sown."

  How many times have you heard about relationships getting stale?  Men stop holding their wife's hand; she hears that she's beautiful less and less often; he doesn’t think to tell her how much he needs and appreciates her love and support.  Women stop crawling into their husbands arms; he hears more nagging about what he hasn’t done than thanks for what he has; she doesn’t think to tell him how much she needs and appreciates his love and support.  Why do we stop showing the kind of affection that we did in the beginning?  I don't want to sound too cliché, but once you get comfortable in a relationship it's easy to lose the fire. Something happens over time. The excitement of a new relationship inevitably fades and we start to take for granted that the person we love knows that we love them.  We might still say it with regularity, but it only occasionally comes out with the same feeling or in the same way that it did in the beginning.  I guess we just get caught up in responsibilities, trials, life in general, and stop taking the time (or making the time) to express how we feel.  And, for the most part, if you’re not expressing your feelings, you’re not feeling your feelings. 

  On the flipside, if your spouse is not hearing and being reminded that you love them, you’re not hearing and being reminded that you love them either.  Every time you take the time to remind your spouse of how you feel about them, you’re reminding yourself too. You need it as much as they do!  Regularly expressing affection for your spouse helps you overcome the flesh and avoid becoming impatient, angry, neglectful, dishonest… all the things born of selfishness and pride… and makes it easier to sacrifice, surrender, minister, comfort, and care for the one you love. 

  This week God said to me… “Tracy… I miss how as a bride you loved me.” 

  Do I not tell Him that I love Him like I used to?  Have the moments when I do tell Him become rote? Has it become more a habit of words than an actual expression of feeling?  I guess I have.

  Would I be better at avoiding temptation and become less likely to hurt Him if I spent more time just telling him how I feel about Him?  Okay, that was sort of a ‘Duh!’ question.

  But you know what really hit me? What made me feel incredibly loved and incredibly sorry all at the same time? God missed me.  The Creator of the Universe… the King of Kings… the Great I Am… the Lover of My Heart… missed me.  He missed the way I used express my love for Him when I was His young and passionate bride.

  I hope He never misses me again.

   

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