Happily Ever After - Part 1
Awesome morning at Capstone Church today. Started a new series. Plans were changed BIG time today, but the name of Jesus was lifted high and that is ALL that matters. I wrote a few random thoughts on my blog here.
Is your life like a fairy tale? Odds are that you would answer with a major NO! We read these tales and dream about those things in our own lives, but reality never works out the same way. The problem is that fairy tales only exist in our minds. Happily Ever Afters are not always a part of life. In fact more than our HAPPINESS, God’s main concern is our HOLINESS.
Think about that last line. The Creator God of the universe cares more about your holiness than your happiness. In our sinful mind we get that sentence turned around, but after spending time in the Word we see how true that statement is. “When we love God more we love our spouse greater.”
Read Ephesians 5:25-33 again. Don’t miss the correlation between the image of marriage and the relationship between Christ and the church.
The word that stuck out to me as Walt preached today was SACRIFICE. “Most men would quickly sacrifice their life for their wives. It wouldn’t get a second thought. But are you willing to sacrifice the ESPN or the football tickets or the golf outing?” Our role men is to lead our wives and family in a way to present them blameless before the Father.
Walt closed with this statement and I pray you sit on this for a while. “When we love our spouse as Christ loved the church our marriages will undergo transformation.”
Here are the songs we used to guide our worship today:
- Stir Our Hearts (Dukes)
- All For You (Dukes)
- How Great is Our God (Tomlin)
- Mighty to Save (Hillsong United)
- You Alone Can Rescue (Redman)
- Let Your Kingdom Reign (Elevation Worship)
