As I've been in planing mode for the wedding, I've also been in high mode thinking about the wedding. I guess its hard not to be. It just gets you thinking about why you do all the little things--all the details--the exact way you do. You know, when I moved to the south, it drove me NUTS that people used to say so frequently that it was 'tradition' for nearly everything. Why do you do ____ 'its tradition' yet no one could tell me the tradition. I guess I've always been a wonderer.
So with this mind set, I've gotten to thinking, why do we do things the way we do for a wedding??? Because lets face it, I'm not the girl to keep doing things just because thats how they've always been done. I like change, in fact I thrive in it, so I'm not afraid to change something if I see it fit. So I've been seeking reasons why.
It got me thinking as to why spend the $$$ on such an expensive dress and suit/tux for just a few hours, and ask everyone else get soooo dressed up. Seriously why? Heres what I came to. And mind you, this is totally my own thinking, I'm not at all suggesting this is Truth.
When I think of what a wedding symbolizes, a union of a man and a woman, to be married for a lifetime, to become one, it couldn't more clearly symbolize the union of Christ and the Church (that is Biblical). When they stand at the altar in front of all their witnesses, making vows and promising to love one another for better or for worse, there is so much that is taking place. Its a picture into the future. Its a picture into the future reality. The man and woman are far from perfect. Far far far from perfect. Yet they are promising to love one another and push them to purification in Christ. Its like for that instance...and the instances to come, they have the eyes of Christ to see each other as Christ would see them in heaven. Pure. Clean. Blameless. Made perfect. Its a promise to not give up on their flaws, weaknesses and shortcomings when the rest of the world says they are far gone. Its commitment. Its seeing each other as no one has seen them, or ever will but Christ Himself.
So when I think of 4.2.11, I think of a day to 'play dress up' for the real day to come. For that reason, I will dress in the finest on my wedding. I will wear a dress and he will wear a tux, and we will make promises to one another to love and learn and lean and stay. That day will be joyous. We together will dream of the day our Beloved says to us 'well done good and faithful servant...' For that day will be joyous. I can't wait. Its a picture of the gospel lived out in the union of a marriage. Blessings
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