QUESTIONS
"Sometimes God answers us with questions--questions that leave us humbled, awe, speechless, weak & believing--believing not because we've found the answer, but because we've seen God. It doesn't matter that we have more questions now than when we started. It matters that we see God, for in the seeing, we discover that the truest answer to all our questions is to worship Him." John Fischer, Men's Devotional BibleMARRIAGE
"Without marriage society cannot thrive. And yet, this creaturely gift always points beyond creation to God's salvation of mankind."To say it more dogmatically, marriage is not isolated to the First Article of the Apostles' Creed, but it is bound up in the Second & Third Articles. God has desired us & has not despised His creation. God became man to save us lost & condemned creatures. And the Spirit has brought us to Christ, sanctifying us through water the Word (Eph. 5:36). As man would leave father & mother for his wife, Christ left His Father in heaven to become one with His Bride, even unto death, & to make her His own. The Spirit delivers to us Christ's innocence & joins us to Him . . .
"The bride is simultaneously an image of the first woman, brought forth from man & brought back to him, & an image of all humanity, whom God made in His own image & for himself. She is also an image of the holy church, brought forth from Christ, & made one with Him inHoly Baptism, & nourished by His Word & His own body & blood. If only every groom who stood at the altar of God saw his bride for what she is, the world would be filled with happy & blessed Christian marriages." Jason Lane, The Lutheran Witness, May 2020
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