How God brought my husband and I together is really a wonderful love story. He truly is God's gift to me. He is my knight in shining armor (if there is such a thing.) I love him with my whole heart!
I waited for him for almost 11 years. I promised the Lord, I would not go out and
look for a husband. I said, "If you have someone for me, you will have to bring him to
me.” That’s pretty bold, I would say.
But, I truly meant it.
I had not really done it right with my first marriage and didn’t want to do the
same thing again. My husband and I laugh about it, but it’s really true. God had to prepare
his heart for me and mine for him. That
is why it took 11 years...no wait I mean 40 years. Whew! We are two stubborn people!
We grew up together in the same little town,
on the same ice cold creek (just different parts of it), and I knew of his family
and he knew of mine, but our paths never really crossed. We even went to the same school. I
was just a few years younger. But, we had different interest, different
friends, and grew up on different sides of town. It just wasn’t meant to be yet. I married and had children. And he married
and had children. I divorced. He
divorced. He moved all over the country working and I stayed put in northwest Florida teaching. It still wasn’t time.
I saw him at
our church. But, didn't really pay much attention to him. Not that he wasn’t a handsome man, he was very handsome it’s just that I didn’t
really look at anyone in that way, because of the vow I had made with the Lord. I had
not gone out on a single date after the divorce of my ex-husband. I was asked a
few times but never really interested. Anyway, I still had a young son to raise. He
was really my focus. I also had to get
my life in order, so I needed time to learn to love God with all my heart and
allow Him to teach me to love myself. The
best way that I can describe it is I was married to the Lord and I didn’t desire
anyone else in my life.
I still get
goose bumps just thinking about it. One
fall night I came home from a Fall Festival at the school I was teaching at and
went to my caller ID to receive my phone calls. There on the caller ID was his name. I'm trying hard to write in words what my heart, mind, and
emotions experienced that night. I had seen him at church but never one time thought about him in that way but when I saw his name that night, I knew
in my spirit that he was the one. I just knew. I can only imagine… Mary pregnant with Jesus, walked up to Elizabeth and she knew immediately by the Spirit that she was pregnant and Elizabeth's baby leaped
inside of her. Well, I'm not trying to compare myself to Mary, Elizabeth, or Jesus. ( I know you think, well that’s a little far-fetched), but my heart leaped inside of me and I heard Holy Spirit say, "he's the one."
I started to cry for a lot of reasons. It was bitter-sweet. I was excited that “the one and only” that God
had chosen for me had appeared. I was
overwhelmed that God had really done what I asked Him to do. I didn’t go out and look for him…he came to
me. He had fulfilled His promise to me. But, sad at the same time because I didn’t
want my relationship with the Lord to change. It had been just the two of us
for so long. There were a lot of different emotions flowing. I was scared to
death, so I didn’t call him back. I just let God do what He wanted to do in us. Yes, in days to come I looked at him in a whole different way. I fell madly in love with this man that God had chosen for me.
We started
dating In November, 2008 and got married in July 2009. It’s almost been 7 years and each day together we are learning a little more about loving each other the way
that God intends us to love. God put us
together. What God wants to teach me about myself I can learn through my husband.
What my husband needs to learn about himself, he can see in me. I am his help-mate and he is mine. When God
joins two people together that is the awesome thing about their union. They
have each other and Holy Spirit to lead, guide and direct them. That is the union
that Father desires. The Trinity Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is the perfect
union. The more that we allow Holy
Spirit to teach, guide and direct us, will be how much we can love and help
other people. That is the desire of our
union together. To love God with all our heart, love each other, and love the people that He puts in our lives.
I wanted
to tell you about our love story so that I could use it as a parallel to the greatest love story ever told, the love story between
Jesus and His Bride, The Church. I love
the symbolism that He uses. We
understand it so well. There is not a
person that can’t understand the love that a bride has for her groom and the
anticipation that she feels to be his wife.
We can all see the burning desire in a groom’s eye as his bride walks
down the aisle to stand beside him. She
is ultimately the most beautiful creature on the face of the earth to him.
There is no one else that he desires but her. There is no other time in a
person’s life that they desire someone as much as when they are walking
down the aisle to stand by the love of their life.
I can see
why Jesus calls us His Bride. The
burning desire in His eye is for us. He is jealous for us and wants us to have
no other lover but Him. He wants us to leave all others and cleave only to Him. He loves us so much! He gave His life for us,
so that we can spend eternity with Him. What an amazing love story. I want to love Him in that way! I want to desire His presence in my life more than I desire anything else!
Thank you, for everything you have done in my life...
Thank you, for everything you have done in my life...
Thank you, just doesn't seem adequate ❤
sammie jean
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