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May 22, 2006
A Wedding of Sinners
Weddings are beautiful when the bride and groom are full of fresh, ecstatic love for each other.
Weddings are gorgeous when they are soaked through with a sober joy and an intimate knowledge of redemption's reach.
This past weekend, Noel and I witnessed the latter, and it was, indeed, deeply lovely. As individuals, the bride and groom had lived sharply different lives, but both had been shattered by sin's unrelenting destructiveness. Denial, loss, hopelessness, addiction. Bitterness, betrayal, desperation. In these lives, Christ took His quiet, tender love; He opened eyes, changed hearts, bound wounds, and placed hope inside aching, gaping holes.
And then, He gave each to the other.
He had restored them separately, but when He brought them together with brilliant grace, there seemed to be an explosion of new life. No one claims that this marriage will be blissfully smooth, but the grace they know is wrapped tightly around their hearts. Their love is humble but eager.
Because of these friends, Noel and I have come to understand better how completely and restoringly Christ loves the church. In turn, we have new knowledge of the call for our own marriage to reflect that love. It is a call to acknowledge our devastating failures and to sacrifice ourselves, making beauty in brokenness.
Redemption is gorgeous indeed.
Faith | By elissa | 03:23 PM
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amen to that.
Posted by: Luther at May 22, 2006 11:38 PM
