{"id":84,"date":"2020-01-29T03:59:43","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T03:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=84"},"modified":"2020-01-27T01:07:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T01:07:10","slug":"marriage-vows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/marriage-vows\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage Vows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Wednesday, January 29<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Marriage Vows \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one. This is a great mystery, but is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one. <strong>\u00a0Ephesians 5:31-32<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gods Word makes it clear that the relationship which a man and woman enter into as husband and wife is a picture of Christ and His Church, which is described as His Bride. When accepting Christ as Savior we become members of His body, His Bride, and we\u2019re committed to that special relationship with Him.<\/p>\n<p>To gain a deeper understanding of our personal commitment to Christ, let take a deeper look at the traditional wedding vows which are usually said in a Christian context. The question is posed \u2018Will you have this man (or woman)?\u2019 \u2018Will you?\u2019 it\u2019s a question that requires an action (your response). In other words \u2018Are you willing?\u2019 This implies an intention to do something, in this case \u2018to have\u2019 which signifies an experience of special relationship with something or someone.<\/p>\n<p>This promise of willing surrender is beautifully illustrated on the occasion when Abraham sent his servant to find a wife for Isaac. When asked the question, \u2018Are you willing to go with this man?\u2019 Rebekah simply replies, \u2018Yes I will go\u2019 (Genesis 24:58).<\/p>\n<p>Are you willing to place God first and commit to the marriage? Are you willing to experience the daily ups and downs of life together through Christ who strengthens you?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, January 29 Marriage Vows \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one. This is a great mystery, but is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one. \u00a0Ephesians 5:31-32 Gods Word makes it clear that the relationship which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}