Seize the Moment – Day 1357
The Anticipation of Love!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Monday, December 4.
Do you remember anticipating your wedding day? Maybe you’re still waiting for such a love to come into your life. If so, be wise in how you wait because love is a powerful source of energy. Solomon’s fiancée, the Shulammite, expressed her eagerness to marry Solomon in Song of Solomon 2:3-6:
Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the young men. In his shade I took great delight and sat down, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. He has brought me to his banquet hall, and his banner over me is love. Sustain me with raisin cakes, refresh me with apples, because I am lovesick. Let his left hand be under my head and his right hand embrace me.
Kimberly and I wed in 1999, at Fayetteville Christian Church, outside of Fort Bragg, North Carolina. We met at the church when we were both serving in the 82nd Airborne Division. In anticipation of our wedding day, Kimberly turned down a promotion, sacrificially making the decision to end her time in the US Army so that we could get married without the complication of both of us being in the service. With this significant gesture of love and hopefulness, Kimberly allowed me to raise my banner of love over her, trusting that I would provide for her well-being in the future. In response, I eagerly wrapped my arms around her and pledged myself to her as we anticipated our wedding day. Decades later, I am in awe of the gift of God’s love to sustain us in the radical decisions we made for one another, which set us on the path we still walk today.
Seize the moment and trust God for His gift of love – “walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us” (Ephesians 5:2).
God bless you!
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