God is your Husband

As I pondered what my second post would be, I felt it strong on my heart to write about God being our husband. That was a couple days ago, and today at work a customer told me he went to church, and when I asked him what the Word was, he said it was about God being our husband. Confirmation. When God called me into a wilderness season six years ago, it was about two years into it that he revealed to me that He was preparing me for my husband. It was promise I have held onto, and time and time again wondered, it is time? Is it him? It has been a difficult journey to say the least, but in the midst of waiting for my earthly husband, God has taught and reminded me that first and foremost, He is my husband. He is my first love.

The name of my blog page is taken from Isaiah 54:11. In vs. 5 of this same chapter is one of the Scriptures that tells us God is our husband. "For thy maker is thine husband; the Lord of Hosts is His name; and thy redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called." I think it is important to see that husband and redeemer are used interchangeably here. Most of us have a clear understanding of what a husband is. He is the man who takes our hand in marriage, who vows to love and cherish us until death do us part, in sickness and in health. We can find the biblical role of the husband and the wife in Ephesians 5.

I have never been married. I've never been in a serious, long term committed relationship for that matter. I recall my pastor asking me after my being away from the church for many years, "when are you going to make a commitment?" That question ushered me into a period of deep healing from the Lord. Another question the same pastor asked me is why I haven't been married. I didn't think about commitment, but rather my answer was, "you have to trust your whole life in someone else's hands when you get married..." Here it is four years after that conversation, and it is brought to my remembrance as I lay here listening to the song "When I think about the Lord," that I am led to finish this blog entry with this thought... Marriage is about trust. We should only marry someone if we trust them with our whole life. Including God. "When I think about the Lord, how He saved me, how He raised me, how He filled me with the Holy Ghost, how He healed me to the utter most... When I think about the Lord, how He picked me up, turned me around, how He placed my feet, on solid ground", I can honestly say, Abbah, I trust you. My husband, I trust you. With my whole life, my Love, I trust you.