Remaining Faithful

 Good Evening Everyone!

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       I hope you all have been doing well! Well, it's been a while since I have written a blog post, but I have a new one for you today. This one is a bit different from the usual ones that I write, but the Lord has led to write this one so that's what I am doing today. I want to write about remaining faithful to God in your relationship with Him. The Lord pointed out an interesting detail in how to remain faithful to Him that I am excited to share with you! Before we get started, I hope you have a cup of coffee or tea with you. Today, I am actually drinking Perrier lime seltzer water that I haven't had in a while but forgot how delicious and refreshing it tastes! Without further ado, let's begin! 

So, the Lord led me to look up wedding vows the other day and He revealed a powerful truth to me! He told me to read each line slowly and really think about the meaning of those vows. He revealed to me that when a man and a woman are married, they must vow to each other not to break the marriage covenant. Following the binding of the marriage covenant through pledging not to leave one another, they sign a marriage contract once they say I do and seal it with a ring and a kiss. I pondered these vows over and over again. The vows that are voiced are "I take so and so to be lawfully wedded husband or wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and health, to love and to cherish until death do us part." 

This is summed up in two words and those two words are "remaining faithful." When bride and groom say these words, they are pledging to remain faithful in good times, bad times, sickness, health, rich or poor and to have and to hold from that day forward. In the same way, this is how our relationship is supposed to be with God. In your relationship with God, there are going to be mountaintop moments, valleys, trusting Him when you are walking through darkness, confusion, in the storm, in the good times and bad. In this life, we walk through many seasons and stages in this life just like in marriage. In marriage, you have the honeymoon phase, the "I'm used to you phase", "I'm mad and frustrated with you phase because you are not listening to me or seeing eye to eye with me at the moment." You have the "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have acted or said those things moment." You have the phase of having and raising your children. Then you have the growing older with you phase. There are many phases and I'm sure someone could add to it, but you get the point.

   In our relationship with Christ, we go through a lot of stages and phases, but the question is are you going to remain faithful to Him through the good and the bad? Are you keep choosing to believe His word and keep moving or are you going to fall behind? Are you going to remain faithful in times when you cannot feel Him or see Him moving in your life? What about times of persecution or suffering or times of loss? What about when He is trying to grow your faith? Just like in marriage, you have to choose to love and remain faithful. Feelings are fickle and are constantly changing, this is why we must choose and have faith. So, friends, please remain faithful in your relationship with the Lord, it will be so worth it in the end. Think about Jesus when He walked this earth, He remained faithful to the Lord and fulfilled His purpose. It didn't come without suffering, but it was worth it in the end. So, it is with us, remain faithful my friends! May God bless you and keep you. Shalom, until next time!