
There HE is.
Standing at the end of the aisle.
JESUS!
But HE saw you first.
And then
GOD hands you to HIM.
JESUS
looks directly into your eyes
and then speaks,
"In the name of GOD,
I, JESUS take you, __________,
to be mine.
To have and to hold from this day forward,
for better, for worse,
for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health,
to love and to cherish,
until parted by death here on earth,
for when I will take you with me into eternity"
You don’t have to say anything in return,
because your walking down the aisle
IN FAITH
says it all.
You BELIEVE IN HIM.
You are HIS.
And then JESUS finishes with
a BLESSING and a CALLING~
“_____________, your faith has healed you. Now go in PEACE”
(Luke 8:48).
You then turn around to start walking down the aisle,
but look back to take another look at JESUS.
And HE is gone.
You stand in white,
holding your flowers.
And now you have to take your fist step,
without seeing HIM and without touching HIM,
yet BELIEVING IN HIM.
Because that is what
FAITH IS~
"FAITH IS is confidence in what we hope for
and the assurance about what we do not see"
(Hebrews 11:1).
Just because you can't SEE HIM doesn't mean HE isn't there.
So then you run as fast as you can
the race that is before you.
But then you take another look behind you,
and you SEE HIM!
JESUS is smiling.
You run to HIM.
HE gives you a high five.
You see the nail holes in HIS hands.
And then it all makes sense.
JESUS IS WITH YOU.
For JESUS made a PROMISE,
and a PROMISE is a PROMISE from
the ONE making the
PROMISE.
HIS PROMISES to BELIEVE by FAITH,
for ACTIONS speak louder than words~
"...let us run with endurance and active persistence the race that is set before us,
[looking away from all that will distract us and]
focusing our eyes on JESUS, who is the AUTHOR and
PERFECTER of FAITH..."
(Hebrews 12:1-2).
You don’t understand it completely,
but you do it anyway~
"Not that I, _________, have already obtained all this,
or have already arrived at my goal,
but I, _________, press on to take hold of that for
which CHRIST JESUS took hold of me..."*
But even though you don't fully understand it all completely
you do it anyway~
"forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead"
as you
"...press on toward the goal to win the prize for which
GOD has called you heavenward in CHRIST JESUS"
*(Philippians 3:12-14).
Because following JESUS isn’t a spectator sport.
Therefore,
you just do it
and
"STAND IN FAITH"
(listen to the song below)
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