My Walk Down The Aisle

With Easter close by, I decided to write about a lesson I learned last year from a sermon in church, this lesson touched me so much and I know it will live with me forever. I might not be able to say it in the exact words of my Pastor, but this was my take away. I AM BARABBAS It was a bad Friday for the disciples because their leader was killed. Oh it was a bad Friday for Mary, the mother of Jesus to watch her son crucified on the cross…with so much pain… It was a bad Friday for Jesus’s followers and friends, those he healed, saved, fed and taught. Am sure it was a bad Friday for those children that sat at Jesus’ feet to hear about the kingdom of God. “How could someone so good and innocent die this way?”…. But it was a good Friday for Barabbas, a prisoner and a murderer, because the people wanted him released, even the chief priest and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas instead of Jesus… And there was a switch, Jesus died and Ba...

I learned this lesson early in marriage, no matter how much I try to fake my attitude, it just won’t work, I started feeling like I was not myself in my marriage. The truth is, marriage should be a place where YOU can be YOU, recognizing your weakness and trying to be a better person. In a marriage relationship, not only will you get to know your spouse better, you also get to know yourself better, your weaknesses, strengths, attitudes and disposition to things. You might think you have a perfect personality, wait until you get married and your weaknesses stares at you in the face. In a good marriage relationship, you should be able to express yourself to your spouse and vice versa. In expressing ourselves, our weaknesses will come to play, how you or your spouse use that information is now the most important thing. This self discovery in marriage should push us to be better persons and to work on each other’s shortcomings together, not to excuse it by saying ”well, that’s who...

This has been on my mind for days now and I just felt it was time to put pen to paper, especially after listening to Myles Munroe on the role of men. I have always esteemed the role of men, especially in a home and in the life of his wife, and now in marriage, I have come to appreciate it even more. One of the first responsibility God gave to Adam was to cultivate (Genesis 2:15). God put Adam in the garden of Eden to cultivate it and take care of it. He also told him to name the animals and whatever he called each creature, that was its name. God gave man that responsibility to cultivate and name everything around him, including the woman. To cultivate means to grow and to develop and Christ is the best example of a true lover and husband. Ephesians 5:25-28, shows Christ cultivating his Bride (the Church): He gave himself up for her, making her holy, cleansing her by washing through the word, presenting her to himself as a radiant church (admiring her), making sure she ...