I'm getting married in about 2 1/2 months, and so naturally I've been thinking a lot about love and commitment and faithfulness. Yesterday I was talking to a friend about love and marriage, and about how many girls on this campus are looking for a storybook romance, when the real thing is a little different. After 4 1/2 years in a relationship, I have realized this:
True romance looks a lot less like Prince Charming and happily ever after, and a lot more like a bloodied cross.
Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her. ~Ephesians 5:25
In this is love, not that we have loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. ~1 John 4:10-11
"This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends." ~John 15:12-13
Keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. ~1 Peter 4:8
"If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me." ~Mark 8:34
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