The Importance of preparing for our Heavenly Marriage
Feb 7th, 2010 by Samantha
How many of us believe in preparing for our earthly husbands? How many of you would go about your life, until the last minute possible, and then start preparing for your upcoming marriage? I dare say that hardly any of you would do such a thing. I think I can be pretty safe to suggest that most of you are preparing while we speak. And that is wonderful and how it ought to be, don’t get me wrong!
But what I would like to deal with this morning is how I think I can also safely suggest that most people on this earth wait until the last minute possible to prepare for the one most important marriage, that with our Heavenly Bridegroom. And some never do get around to preparing for it, but just live every day from day to day.
But is this right? Should we not be just as concerned about our Heavenly marriage, as we are with our earthly marriage? Which one will last forever, even after we pass from this earth to the next? Girls, I dare say that you ought to be even more concerned with the preparedness of your heart and life where Yahshua comes in (your Heavenly Bridegroom), than you ought to be over that of your earthly bridegroom! Yet, as I look around me, I see just the opposite. People are so concerned over being ready for their earthly marriages that they leave out how they need to be preparing for their heavenly one, as well.
Sometimes, it is very easy to become nearer minded. As in, a one tracked mind. We can see our earthly marriages. We can look around us at couples who were ill prepared for them, and we can see how much we don’t know and need to learn, so we put our focus on that. We long for marriage, so we throw ourselves into preparing for that marriage. But where our Heavenly one is concerned, one that we can’t really see, so we don’t generally see how vitally important it is to be prepared for it or even how our actions even effect it. Yes, we know that we are married (or betrothed) to our bridegroom, Yahshua. Yes, we know that we need to live a righteous life. Yes, we also know that we need to read our Bibles.
But what I want to challenge you today is; how many of our earthly marriages would fail if we treated them with the care that we have with our heavenly marriages? How many would want to spend as little time as we generally do with our bridegroom Yahshua, of that with our earthly husbands? How many of our marriages would fail, with how we treat Yahshua, if that is how we started treating our earthly husbands?
Girls, we all know that a man’s greatest need is to be respected and honored (as well as obeyed). Everyone will tell you this. Yet, how many of us dishonor God with how we treat Him? We know that we are to obey and submit to our earthly husbands and that this is a much needed ingredient to have our marriages succeed. I mean, how do we show our true love to them? Is it not by obeying them? Yet, how many of us go through our lives, knowing what Yahshua and His father wishes for us to do, yet, we walk away not doing any of it? Or atleast not in the areas that seem to “difficult” for us to follow. We do the “easier” things of course. We just leave out the more difficult things…the areas that He commands us to keep, but we know our friends would think we were weird if we did.
Girls, let me again voice this question to you; how many of you treat your heavenly marriage as you do your earthly marriages? How many put just as much work and time into your heavenly marriage, as you do into your earthly one? How many of you spend just as much time preparing for the one, as you do the other? And how many of you will truly be prepared to be Yahshua’s bride, when He comes calling you the marriage supper? And how many of you will bring Him shame, when He comes and finds you, and how many of you will see a smile on His face as He beholds His bride?
You see, this life isn’t about our earthly marriages. Yes, they are important and are supposed to be beautiful. I know that. And yes, I believe we are to be prepared for them. Yahweh Himself told us that much. But He also gives us a glimpse into our Heavenly marriage when He tells us that our earthly marriage is supposed to be a picture of our Heavenly marriage. Our lives here on earth are supposed to be focused on the heavenly, not the earthly, for the earthly will pass away, but heavenly will last for eternity. This is what is the most important areas of our lives, girls. The question is; are you getting prepared for it? And will you be prepared for it when He comes?
Don’t waste this precious time that Yahweh has blessed you with. Prepare the way for Yahweh! Prepare for the most beautiful relationship and marriage…that of our precious Lord and Master, Yahshua! And girls, in order for you to have a beautiful marriage with someone, you must put your time and effort into that person. You can’t go about your days ignoring them. You must have an open communication and dialog with them. This means reading and studying Yahweh’s word and how you can live your life to bring Him pleasure. This means spending time in prayer, talking with Him. Don’t go day by day, never speaking to Him! Talk to Him! He longs to get to know your heart and for you to get to know His. And just like you would surely devour a love letter written by your beloved, you should also devour the “letter” written to you from your Beloved!
My challenge for you today is to start putting more of your time and effort into your heavenly marriage and stop thinking that all that matters on this earth is that you get married. Yes, it is important, but it isn’t as important as your heavenly marriage. Here you are, already married and spoken for, so spend more time furthering that relationship and marriage…for the more you prepare for that marriage, the more you will be prepared for your earthly marriage and relationship, as the one will flow right on into the other. Don’t put it off, dear precious girls! He is waiting for us and He longs to really get to know you! Use your time wisely and let’s make our Heavenly bridegroom smile down upon us, like we would want to see our earthly husband do!