Agalliao

Is this how Jesus will present us to His Father?  We think, YES! 


Gana and Daja



Marriage is sacred.  It was created to be the wedding portrait of Christ and His Bride hung over the blazing fireplace of judgement.  A match made in Heaven, a contract signed in blood.  In the bond of marriage, we are to stand at the altar of Sacrifice or we're not to stand at all.

Colossians 1:16-17, gives us this assurance-- "...by him all things were created...and in him all things hold together."

God alone created marriage.  Adam slept through the entire ceremony.  Eve came in late.  It seems to me men are still sleeping through marriage and women are still coming to their senses a little too late.  God alone performed that ceremony and He alone can hold it together.

Much of our disillusionment over marriage stems from the fact that we've been duped into believing that good equals easy.  In other words, we often assume that if something is difficult, it can't be of God.  Nothing has been more difficult for Christ than the marraige to His Bride yet Jude 24 says He'll present her to His Father with great joy!  The Greek root word is "Agalliao."  It means "to show one's joy by leaping and skipping denoting excessive or ecstatic joy and delight!"  Just picture it.  After all the ups and downs in the relationship, after all the marriage has cost Him, He'll act like a love-struck boy introducing his girl to his dad for the very first time.  Why? Because He thinks she was worth it.

On the pleasant days of marraige, gaze across at your groom and conclude that he is worth it.  On the difficult days of marriage gaze up at your Groom and conclude that He's worth it.

"A cord of three strands is not quickly broken."  Ecclesiastes 4:12b

(by Beth Moore from her book Things Pondered.)