“… A man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh” Gen. 2:24.
Don’t expect to ever achieve a perfect relationship in your marriage. There are some things you and I will only find in Jesus. Marriage is a picture of the relationship between Christ and the church, but marriage is not a substitute for the relationship between Christ and the Christian.
In 1882, a young man named George Matheson went to see the doctor because he was having trouble with his eyes. The doctor ran tests and found that George was going blind. He said, “There is no easy way to tell you this. You will probably be blind within the year, and there isn’t anything that can be done to prevent it.”
George was a young man. Brokenhearted, he went for comfort to the woman he loved. As he told her the doctor’s prognosis, her response was to remove her engagement ring, place it in his hand and say, “I’m sorry, but I can’t spend the rest of my life with a blind man.”
Crushed by this blow, George Matheson went home and penned the words of the great hymn:
Oh love that will not let me go, I rest my weary soul in thee. I give thee back the life I owe, that in thine ocean depths its flow may richer, fuller be. Oh light that follows all my way, I yield my flickering torch to thee; my heart restores its borrowed ray that in thy sunshine’s glow its day may brighter, fairer be. Oh joy that seeks me through pain, I cannot close my heart to thee; I trace the rainbow through the rain, and feel the promise is not vain, that morn shall tearless be. Oh Cross that lifts up my head, I dare not ask to fly from thee; I lay in dust life’s glory dead, and from the ground, there blossoms red, life that shall endless be.
In Jesus, you will find the only one who loves you perfectly. He has no ulterior motives, and he loves you. He sorrows when you sorrow and rejoices when you rejoice. He will never leave you or forsake you. No matter how genuinely your spouse loves you, it is only a reflection of the depth and power of Jesus’ love. Jesus is the source. Fix your eyes on him.
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