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Since our wedding day, I’ve learned that year seven has become something of a milestone for marriages (largely, it seems, thanks to a 1955 film, The Seven Year Itch). The “seven-year itch” refers to the time when one or both spouses grow tired of the marriage and begin to long for something new.
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Ephesians 5:22–33 is the classic Bible text on marriage. It’s a critical place for Christian couples to regularly return to get their bearings. It’s often read at weddings, and often referenced in articles, sermons, and books on marriage. But in our ten years of marriage, it has not been the most significant biblical passage for us.
Marriage is God’s creation and design, for one man and one woman together for a lifetime of joys and trials.
Marriage is a momentary but glorious gift. It is more than a husband’s and wife’s love for each other — vastly more. Its meaning is infinitely great: the display of the covenant-keeping love between Jesus and his people.
The wedding day has finally come. Tomorrow, Lord willing, I will no longer be not-yet-married. In a month or year or five years, people will ask us how marriage is going. We didn’t want to have to settle for how we feel in the moment, so we prayed about what we want out of marriage.
Probably not. More likely, a wedding garment was a nice set of clothes used for special occasions, much like we would wear “church clothes” on Sunday morning. If this is the case, then the guest without a wedding garment is an underdressed attendee, like a man appearing at a funeral in board shorts and flip-flops.
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Part of one of those poems hangs on our bedroom wall. It’s my echo of the text that was read by my father at our wedding, Habakkuk 3:17-18. It’s a hard-times-but-happy text. It says, Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold
Look to your wedding party, who vowed to labor alongside your marriage in the gospel, for encouragement and guidance. Check in with the pastor who married you. Laugh and reminisce about the day, and look at pictures that highlight the joy of being made one by God, before God, and for God. 2. Anniversaries are about honoring God for what he’s ...