~~~Before I met Cody, I liked another guy so much. Then I did everything positive for him to notice me. It didn't work. He ignored me. I've learned to focus more on God and surrender my lovelife to Him and prepared myself to be the best friend and best wife to my future husband. When I finally met Cody, we started as very good friends. Because of him, I've learned a lot of beautiful things. I've learned patience and respecting others as much as I respect myself. God used and is using Cody to make me a more beautiful person. We've been through a lot but he never left me. He is the only man who never left me inspite of the negative attitude that I have but I don't have anymore. hehehe! After months of friendship, Cody and I started to walk in love. Grow in love. It was and is beautiful. I am in awe until now. He made me feel special and worthy of a man's love. Now, I am contented with Cody and I can hardly wait to walk down that aisle and see him waiting for me at the altar with God's beautiful blessing and anointing upon us.
"The measure of love is when you love without measure. In life, there are very rare chances that you'll meet the person you love and loves you in return. So once you have it, don't ever let go. The chance might never come your way again."
~~~True true true. True love is immeasurable. Whenever I ask Cody if he loves me less, he always tells me that he couldn't measure his love for me but it surely grows everyday. It always leaves me speechless. I can only hope to see his blue eyes staring at me while saying it. I have him and I never want to let go. Grab every opportunity as what they say.
Ephesians 5:16 (NLT)
"Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days."
"It's better to lose your pride to the one you love, than to lose the one you love because of pride. We spend too much time looking for the right person to love or finding fault with those we already love, when instead we should be perfecting the love we give."
~~~Cody and I always work on trials. We never let pride get in the way. We have learned that it is good to humble yourself not only to God, but also to your partner. As what is written in the Scriptures...
2 Peter 1:6-7 (TLB)
"...Learn to put aside your own desires so that you will become patient and godly, gladly letting GOD have His way with you. This will make possible the next step, which is for you to enjoy other people and to like them, and finally you will grow to love them deeply."
Jude 1:14-16 (NIV)
14Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men: "See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones 15to judge everyone, and to convict all the ungodly of all the ungodly acts they have done in the ungodly way, and of all the harsh words ungodly sinners have spoken against him." 16These men are grumblers and faultfinders; they follow their own evil desires; they boast about themselves and flatter others for their own advantage.
~~~We don't want to be faultfinders. Instead...
Acts 13:15
..."Brothers, if you have a message of encouragement for the people, please speak."
And of course, true humility is a must...
1 Peter 5:6
"So humble yourselves under the mighty power of God, and at the right time he will lift you up in honor."
~~~God will truly bless your marriage and partnership.
Trials come because...
James 1:4 (NLT)
"...for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing."
James 1:4 (NIV)
"Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything."
"When you truly care for someone, you don't look for faults, you don't look for answers, you don't look for mistakes. Instead, you fight the mistakes, you accept the faults, and you overlook the excuses."
~~~When you look for faults or mistakes, you become judgmental. And the Holy Bible says...
Matthew 7:2 (NIV)
"For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."
Luke 6:37 (NIV)
"Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven."
Romans 2:1 (NIV)
"You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things."
When I feel weird, I ponder with love quotes, articles and books. They renew my mind every time. They remind me of how beautiful love is. Instead of watching and listening to negative news on TV, indulge in God's Word and love. They renew the mind. They enrich the heart. 1 Corinthians 13 works all the time.
Marriage before love? Marriage is a commitment. Commitment requires love. Before finding the person to love, marriage must come to mind. Why? Because you cannot love first then not continue into marriage. Love is not a game and so is marriage. You can love anyone but you cannot marry everyone. When I've seen the title of an article "Marriage before Love", I was amazed and I didn't even have to read it to know what's been said. It is simply to instill commitment before actually growing in love with someone. Without the idea of commitment, you will always try to give up when trials come. I've been there, done that. I was never proud to have so many ex-boyfriends. It was a shame for me. But then, I realized God has been so good and faithful to me that He has given me a wonderful boyfriend to start again til the end of time.
My Cody and I have a quote, "If you give up now, you will always give up for the rest of your life." An amazing revelation to me that we always use.
My mom is a perfect example of "marriage before love" because my dad is her first and last boyfriend and of all the sad trials they've been through (which my closest friends know of), they're still together for 24 years now. Whenever I think of giving up, I look at my mom. She's an amazing, living testimony of commitment and love. She always told herself before she met my dad that her first is her last. She always tells me that I shouldn't give up just because of petty things. And that I should always strive to make the relationship work. Amazingly, God gave me a boyfriend who thinks like my mom. hahaha! I would never want to love any man other than my Cody. I am willing to give everything I have. No room for giving up. God never gave up in the first place.
As how the song goes...
"Oh I wonder what God was thinking, when He created you.
I wonder if He knew everything I would need,
Because He made all my dreams come true.
When God made you, He must have been thinking about me."
~~~This is truly what I feel. You are my every dream come true. You are my every heart's desire. You are more than what I expected. You are my love.
Cody, whatever happens, there is nothing you do that will make me love you less. You are never inadequate because for me, you are my perfect man. No one else will do. I LOVE YOU SO VERY MUCH, MY ONE-AND-ONLY CODY!
MAY GOD'S GLORY SHINE IN THIS RELATIONSHIP!!! ALL THE GLORY BELONGS TO GOD ALONE!!!
P.U.S.H.
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