Marraige Is Everywhere!!!!

so im getting to the age where a lot of my friends are getting engaged and getting married and it is just rampant right now! its all around me! so naturally its on my mind and i recently heard a sermon on marriage but it took a little twist that i liked. being a christian that loves the Lord and desires glory for Him more than anything i have found that i quite enjoy pissing off Satan :) and nothing pisses off Satan more than Glory for God and not him! therefore this sermon on marriage was a good one. the title of the sermon was "Marriage is a Kingdom Thing" and as most of you know marriage on this earth with the man or woman that God blesses you with is meant to be a picture of God and, His Bride, the Church, aka all His people. so that imagery was touched on a bit which i always find beautiful. being a girl i love thinking about that day when i walk down the aisle and that man, whoever he is, standing at the alter absolutely captivated by me and the thought of finally being made one with me. its such a beautiful parallel to how God delights in His Church finally being united with Him again in Heaven one day and having an intimacy so strong its as if you're one! so looking at that picture and seeing how wonderful that is you have to look at the other side and see that that is the LAST thing that Satan wants! he wants everything opposite of that, and all that is, is brokenness and pain. so one of the main points that was touched on that i hadn't quite thought about full circle yet was on sexual immortality. it is one of those sins that effects your heart and body more than any other sin and "crazily" enough its the one that is most struggled with by all. sex is so commercialized and praised and pushed but not the way that God intended for it to be. the difference between sex before marriage and within marriage is SOOOO different. before marriage it causes brokeness, complication, pain, and typically a "love" that doesnt last. but when its within marriage there is unity, intimacy, joy, and love. a friend of mine used to really struggle with sexual sin and finally she met the man that she felt God had put in her life for the long haul, but there was a period of time where she had to tell him about all the guys that she had been with so there werent any secrets in their marriage and it was really hard for him to hear and i can imagine he probably had fears of comparison and other emotions that werent unity and intimacy because someone else had had that part of her at one point and so on a so forth. im not bashing my friend at all because Christ is bigger than all that and i know that He healed her from all that pain in her past and gave her husband understanding and mercy on her past weaknesses. but the point of all that is that Satan pulled her into all that sexual sin that scarred her for so long. and when her and her husband were preparing to be married they had to battle through all that crap that Satan had piled up and it could have tainted their marriage. Satan hates marriage because it reminds him of the One that he hates most of all......God. any marriage that is one to be desired is one that has God smack dab in the middle of it and so Satan is gonna do everything he can to break that beauty! so i hope and pray that you and i both can have the strength to hold out and stay pure before marriage so that we can have a clearer picture of what God wants with us! and if you have already slipped up or screwed up in that area which has happened to a whole bunch of us then know that in time Christ can heal those wounds and give you purity again if youll commit to pursuing it. He is so good if you'll just let Him in :)

so! shall we piss Satan off!!!! :)