The Useless Wedding Ring
By Len on Nov 8, 2009 in Devo, Family
Many people in our culture wear a wedding band on their left ring finger. Wearing a wedding ring doesn?t make you ?more married?. It?s a cultural sign to people you come in contact with that at some point in your life you choose to be married with someone and probably vowed to them in front of God and everyone gathered, ?For better or worse, in sickness and in health, for richer or poorer and till death do us part.?
So it?s a cultural reminder to others but for the ring bearer, its greater purpose is to be covenant reminder. The covenantal vow between you and the person you loved enough to say ?I want to live with you for the rest of my life!?
Despite the physical reminder of that spiritual, emotional and public proclamation to love someone for the rest of their life, people still forget. When you forget the important things, lesser things fill your head and your heart. Those lesser things have an appeal or can be tempting but in order to choose what is best, we must honor our commitments and live out the love that we proclaimed and many of us vowed to our spouse and to and before God.
So use the tangible things before you to remind you of the intangible truths around you but realize without an intentional decision to sustain the value of the symbol when you see it, it can become as useless as a wedding ring on the finger of the partner having an affair on their spouse.
Good stuff Len!
This is a good reminder for many areas where we “choose” something and have symbols to “remind” us of that commitment…wearing a cross necklace, etc. All too often people wear something as a symbol without acting the way they should for what that symbol represents, be it marriage, Spirituality, or any number of other things.
Kathy | Nov 8, 2009 | Reply