So, I shared the word in a previous post that I’m getting married! To this man and the guy who’s marrying us asked us to study Ephesians 5:22-33 and write about it. Once my paper is back, I will share it here

So anyways, this led me to ponder the high calling that a husband and wife have to reveal the love of Christ in the way they love each other. This then led me to realise that Satan HATES godly marriage. He hates such a God-created picture of Christ and His bride, and the love they have for each other.

I feel a sobriety in knowing that Satan wants to take TJ and I out. He wants to spread in us division and dissention, lying and pride, unfaithfulness and wounding… and ultimately divorce. That is what he wants for us. Like the vandal who threw acid on the Mona Lisa, Satan wants to smear and destroy such a picture of the love of Christ.

And yet I don’t have to be fearful and despairing. God is for us, so who can be against us (Rom 8:31)? I so clearly see the Lord’s fingerprints all over TJ and I, as well as the love and relationship we have cultivated. And He will fight for us and protect us…

… but I am realising that we need prayer, and that we need to be contending for and agreeing with the Lord’s heart to prosper us and use our marriage as a radiant testimony of who He is. And we need to fight for this. There is an all-out war over our upcoming marriage. Married people, don’t be fooled! There is warfare over your love. Fight for it, that Christ may be glorified and you may have the fullness of all the Lord has for you!