Music is such an important part of most people's lives today. It can lift our spirits, mellow us out, fire us up, drag us down…it pretty much always invokes an emotional response when we listen on one level or another.
Today while driving home from work, I experienced one of those emotions in a major way. You see, I was driving along in my own little private world of thoughts and images, where the sky is always Dodger blue and the mailbox is only filled with birthday cards. Yeah, and you always have ice cream in the freezer that has never been opened before…any way…that's when Josh Groban's tenor voice filled my car with a very familiar song.
When I am down and oh my soul so weary
When troubles come and my heart burdens me
Then I am still and wait here in the silence
Until you come and sit a while with me
You raise me up so I can stand on mountains
You raise me to walk on stormy seas
I am strong when I am on your shoulders
You raise me up to more than I can be...
My eyes filled with tears as I drove along heading directly for the person that embodies that very song for me. She will be waiting for me, glad to see me once again…wait a minute…she? That's a Christian song about Jesus isn't it?
There was a very difficult time in my life when that precise thought, about that very song, confused me. You see, I was separated from her, but she, just like my Savior, stood by me and kept me strong, faithful and focused. I would hear Josh Groban and feel equally emotional about the lyrics that described what both meant to me. So much…so strong.
Guilt would then lead to prayer and study in God's word about why I was confusing the two, when one day in reading I came across Ephesians 5:25:
Husbands love your wives, just as Christ loved the church…
That's when I clearly came to the understanding that I'm supposed to love her, yes my beautiful wife and soul mate, just as strong as Jesus loves me…meaning only He comes before her in my heart and soul. A wonderful peace came over me. I felt that peace today again on the way home to be with her.
Marriage is an important bond to God. He gave us so much in His word about what He expects in our marriages. I'm so glad I have a marriage built on the foundation of God. I'm most appreciative He blessed me with a wonderful woman who is only second to Him. She lifts me up…just like Jesus.
My wish is that God blesses you, as He has me, with an amazing spouse….or maybe... He has already.
Amen.
1 comment:
Tony
You did it again. You brought tears to my eyes.
Without knowing your wife, just through your writings, I could tell that she is a gem and the love you share with her is golden, as it is real.
Sounds like your marriage has endured the fire ans has come forth as gold.
I remember a younger couple asking Marcel and I what was the "secret" about our long marriage.
( It will be 43 years this June)
I blurted ou " You just "hang in there". Later I thought, that didn't sound that profound. But isn't it so?
Our marriage is a matter of staying together in the good and bad and hard and easy...ups and downs...sickness and health...forsaking all others and "hanging in there"but NOT ALONE with but the Lord as the most important third person in the triple braided chord.
Thanks Tony
Lin
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