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With the love that is in the air that comes with the approach of spring, I've seen a lot of couples getting engaged and planning weddings. I love it. I love love. And I'm all about marriage. However, I've also been hearing a lot of anti-marriage talk going on. There are so many people that do not believe in the sanctity of marriage. I've heard that it is archaic and for those that are not able to enjoy their lives as single people. Marriage is for those who are lonely and need another person to reassure them that they will never again be alone. It seems that there are a lot of individuals who think that marriage is a waste of time.
Sigh. Where do I even begin?
I always knew that I wanted to get married. For some reason, even when I was a teenager, I was certain that one day I would be someone's wife. I wasn't on a husband search, but I knew that I would. Married people always seemed so happy and secure. They had found the one person in the whole, entire world that would love them forever. They could go on vacations, have babies and grow old with someone that stood in front of a minister and a room full of people to say that they loved them then and they would love them forever.
Now that I am an old pro at this marriage thing (not really), I can see both sides of the Great Marriage Debate. I can understand why someone would want to stay single. They can live their lives for themselves, come and go as they please and not have to ask or answer to anyone about anything. On the other hand, I also understand why a woman would want to be married.
It's all about being exclusive...

1 Thessalonians 5:21

"...but test everything:

Hold fast to what is good."



When a man decides that he is going to ask a woman to be his wife, he has made a choice based on the process of elimination. Stay with me; I'm going somewhere with this, okay?
They date, whether they have only seen a few women, or they have been sowing their oats all over the continental US. However, from the list of women that they have dated, they choose one woman. There was something about that one woman that said "I have to give her my last name and make her mine because I don't want anyone else to have her". He wants to make that woman exclusively his.
When your husband wanted you, he saw that you were worth it. You were the high-quality merchandise that he had to have. He may have tested everything; he may not have. But the bottom line is, yours is the one he wanted. And he held fast to it by leaving his past life behind to cleave to his wife. And he had to be something special himself if you pulled you.
So you're top shelf, girl! You're the good stuff. The cream of the crop.
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