Let Us Be Faithful!

Some of you may know that my daughter is just weeks away from her wedding date. She and her ‘soon-to-be’ have their special date scheduled for this coming November. To say she is beside herself with excitement would be an understatement. They have been blessed with three bridal showers and one more before the month is over. As the father of the bride, I’m most thankful that her fiance, Dalton Todd, is already getting their home prepared as he is currently serving as the pulpit preacher at the Thayer church of Christ in Thayer, Missouri.

And though all this attention to detail is necessary for the plans that go into a beautiful, God-given ceremony, the one thing I love both about these two young people is their daily desire to seek God in their future together. So when Emili posted this Facebook article on October 3rd, I asked if she’d let me share it here. Read some of the thoughts that are going through my daughter’s mind as she looks forward to her wedding day.

“I asked for marriage advice from a lady at church tonight, who (in December) will have been married for 72 years. Expecting something super profound or some secret gem to marriage that only people who’ve been married that long would ever know, what do you think she told me?

With grace and dignity, she simply said…

“Just be faithful.”

Faithfulness truly can apply to each part of life, but I can’t imagine a more worthy ‘challenge’ than committing my forever faithfulness to the Father. How hard is it to do that? HARD. The hardest thing you’ll ever do.

Trust. Accept. Believe. Live. Faithfully.