CRUX Daily: Looking for Your Future Spouse

Read: Ephesians 5:26-27

Reflect: Marriage is an awesome and serious commitment that the Lord established with Adam & Eve. One of the ways you can be prepared for marriage now is by praying for your future spouse. In what ways can you pray for your future spouse?

Request (Prayer): Pray for your future spouse.

We, as humans, long and desire to be in a relationship. That’s how we were designed, that’s how we were created. We were created to share this special bond between, one man and one woman, known as marriage.

Marriage is a sacred thing. It is not suppose to be taken lightly either. God established marriage to an eternal covenant, and the world thinks that marriage is just something you do, and when you don’t love that person anymore, you move on to the next one, and so on and so forth.

As a believer of Jesus Christ, we need to understand the importance of who we marry and what our marriage, in due time, should look like.

God has designed marriage as a forever relationship, which means that the person you marry the first time should be the person you marry for the last time as well. We should only be married once, because God hates divorce. We should work through the problems, after all, the vows people make say, “For better or for worse, in sickness and in health,” because regardless of the circumstance, marriage is suppose to be a joint effort at glorifying God through the relationship.

Maybe you are thinking to yourself right now, “I don’t reality know what this has to do with me?” Well I can tell you exactly what all of this has to do with you! You are at an age, where you should be preparing for a relationship, not actively involved in one. How do I prepare myself for this? Well, the major way for you to prepare for dating and marriage is by praying for your future spouse. What should you be praying for specifically?

For the guys: Pray that your future wife will love God more than anything else. Pray that she lives according to God’s will and not her own.

For the girls: Pray that your future husband will lead you and point you to Christ. Pray that he will love you as Christ loves the church. Pray that he will love you more than any other relationship on earth as well.

When we you pray these things, you show that you would rather have a spouse that God had for you, rather than picking your own. Do you know what’s best for you? No. God does, so let go and let God.