I Still Am

 Renewing your commitment to the one you love has several benefits.

1. It’s a reminder that you are committed to one person and one person only.
2. It restores value to the vows you made so many days, months, or years ago.
3. It refocuses on who is the most important person in your life.
4. It reenergizes  you and your commitment to love that person to “death do us part.”

There are more benefits that could be listed but these four are the most important.

When you renew your commitment you are adding to the story of  your life together. I love hearing the story of how people met and then got married. My grandma, who was married in the early 1900’s told me about their wedding. They couldn’t afford much but what they did was out of the ordinary. She told me, “he started on end of the city and I started on the other end of the city. Wherever we met was where we would get married.” They met on the top of hill and said their wedding vows. My mom also shared a story of how her and my dad first met. My mom and eventually my dad worked at the same bank. Banks didn’t have computers then like they do now. You had to count everything by hand. You had to record everything by hand. Everything was done by manual entry. One day, as my dad came walking by her, she dropped all the coins she was carrying. Guess who stopped and helped her pick all the change?  It was a match made in heaven. I am personally glad they met! 🙂

Over the last four blog entries I have written about how God designed marriage, how God didn’t design marriage, and how everyone is longing to be loved in an “in-sickness-and health” way. Whether you have agreed or disagreed with what I wrote, we can agree that it takes two people  willing to serve each other for a marriage to work. Men are to love their wives in the same way Christ loved the church (He died for it). Women are to love their husband in a way that values him. Both men and women are to submit (willingly yield) to each other out of reverence for Christ. I can’t figure out a more tangible way to love my spouse than to serve her.

“I Still Am” was written from a conglomeration of webpages I read about renewing vows and recommitting to your spouse. I don’t like to call this writing a renewing of the vows because it really isn’t. It’s a recommitment to submit to your spouse in a tangible way. It takes two people willingly yielding in a tangible way for a  marriage to work.

This is the “hard work” of marriage. Marriage isn’t hard work. Figuring out how to serve your spouse is the “hard work”. It’s hard because we don’t naturally want to serve our spouse. It’s natural to want what we want when we want it. It’s supernatural to want to serve your spouse in a way they don’t deserve.

As you read, “I Still Am”, I encourage you and your spouse to print it out and sign it and post it on your fridge. Let your kids see it. Let your guests see it. Let everyone that comes into your home see it. This is a tangible way to let those around you know that you are committed to loving one person for the rest of your life.

I Still Am (click and recommit)