getting married to the right person

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Getting Married to the Right Person

Ron Hutchcraft

When one of our ministry team got married, most of our team was there. We have a lot of fun together, and anticipating that the bride would do the customary throwing of the bouquet at the reception, a special warning had been given to Pam, one of the single young women on our staff. She was told that two big guys had been designated to tie her to her chair when it was time for the bouquet tossing. In case you've missed this little custom, the story is that whoever catches the bride's bouquet will be the next one married. Well, the big guys never materialized and Pam made sure she was front and center for the big moment. The other girls...they never stood a chance. Playing defense with her flying elbows, Pam lunged to make the big catch. It's the first time we'd ever know of first-aid being administer at a bouquet toss. Okay, that's a little exaggerated....but just a little. Pam was not to be denied having the next wedding! By the way, who thought up this custom anyway?

"I'm getting married soon, whatever it takes!". Well, the grabbing of a bridal bouquet is sort of a fun pursuit of that goal. For many, there's nothing fun about it. It's the most serious pursuit of their life.

It may be that you, or someone you know, are really living to be married. When you want it badly and it just isn't happening, it's easy to become more and more frustrated - and more and more desperate. This can, in turn, cause you to make some lifetime mistakes that will only cost you the very happiness you want so much; a mistake like settling for the wrong person. One longtime single man said it this way: "I'd far rather live wanting what I don't have than having what I don't want." Some who belong to Jesus settle for marrying someone who doesn't even share that most important of all relationships. That's why the Bible commands, not suggests, commands, "Do not be yoked together with unbelievers" (2 Corinthians 6:14)Violate God's boundary and you get a marriage without God's blessing, and no love is worth that.

Genesis 24:14 suggests that powerful prayer for every single person, " Let her (or him, as the case may be) be the one the Lord has chosen." Many people have made a lifetime marriage mistake because of loneliness and desperation, and they all agree: there is something lonelier than not being married, and that's being married to the wrong person. That's the loneliest lonely of all.

Our word for today from the Word of God is an awesome promise for anyone wondering if they will ever have the love they crave. Philippians 4:16 says, "My God will meet all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus." No one knows you better than the God who made you, including all your deepest needs. It won't be a man or woman who will ultimately meet those needs. It will be the God behind that promise. He's promised to give you what you need- what your Creator knows you need, not necessarily what you think you need. And He always meets our needs in His perfect time. Those who try to rush it, ruin it.

Maybe you've almost put your life on hold until you find that man or woman to marry. Don't waste a precious day of your life waiting for what you don't have. Live this day - single or married- with all your heart! And don't let your waiting start to turn you hard, cynical, bitter and negative. Those kinds of responses insult the God who said He will meet your needs, and they repel love rather than attract it.

Don't miss what God is doing in your life because all you can focus on is what you wish He was doing. Celebrate this day, knowing "this is the day the Lord has made" (Psalm 118:24). and that the Lordis your Shepard and you shall not want.

-A Daily Word by Ron Hutchcraft, Day 18