as One…
For some reason I have the wedding band hanging on pin my memorabilia board in my kitchen, don’t ask me why but it’s up there.
I know it’s not from some lost love that never happened, I would remember that. The old saying,”it’s better to have loved and lost than to not have loved at all… “ is not true.
We are told that the wedding band represents unending love forever… the perfect circle, but then we know that is not true either, i have been through a divorce so may have you, that wedding band meant nothing in the end.
My hat is off to those couples who been married for 50 years they know something I certainly don’t.
There is something I do know that in a relationship with God through the saving work of Jesus I do have a relationship that will last forever.
I recall Jesus’s prayer in the garden of Gethsemane, “ My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one—I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.” (John 17:20-23)
I stop for a minute and rest on those verses and think about what it means to have Jesus pray for me, for all who believe in him as Lord and Saviour to be… as one.
Just like the wedding band, a perfect circle of endless of love; forged on the cross at Calvary,… unbreakable.
Lord, help me to always remember that in this world relationships come and go and love ican be a passing fancy… but that in my relationship with you it is unending for all eternity
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