Easter and Your Marriage

Today is Easter. The day in which we celebrate the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. If you call yourself a Christian, today is the culmination of everything we believe. Friday was the day that our debt of sin was paid; today is the day that death, hell, and the grave lost all of their power over us. No longer do we have to anticipate and accept natural death as the end of our lives, hell as our payment for sin, and the grave as our final resting place. This is the GREATEST news of the gospel!

You may be asking, "This is great news for my soul but how does this apply to my marriage though?"

The resurrection has everything to do with your marriage!

Jesus is the bridegroom; the church is His bride. His taking the cross was His act of consummating His union to His bride. And, He did it for a bride He has yet to be fully joined to!! He is not even able to whisk her away to the honeymoon because that time has not yet come. And still, He died for her. Jesus stood for His marriage even before He was able to fully take her to Himself.

If Jesus was able to stand for His marriage...
If Jesus was able to die the death that He did...
If Jesus was able to lie in a cold, dark tomb for 3 days with guards watching its entrance...
If Jesus had the power to roll the stone away from the mouth of the tomb...
If Jesus was able to come back to life again...
If Jesus was able to find the time to go down and wrest the keys to death, hell, and the grave from those that held them...
If Jesus did all this for a bride that He had yet to return for...

Just imagine what He can do in your marriage

if you invite Him into it?

It doesn't matter what the situation that you are dealing with. Your wife did....your husband did...they don't....we can't....we will never....it's over! Whatever the magnitude of bad you and your marriage is at, Jesus is bigger. Whatever you may have said was impossible, Jesus wants to show you that impossibilities are lies with Him. He wants you to know what is really possible when your marriage becomes submitted to the One who did the impossible.

This Easter I dare you to invite the risen Lord into your marriage. Allow Him to rolls the stones that are blocking your exit out of your marital tomb. Allow Him to wrest the keys to your marital success from those that hold them. Give Him permission to breathe His breath of life into your dying, lifeless, and decaying marriage.

I dare you to let Jesus stand for your marriage through you!!

What can the risen Lord do in your marriage?