Lies Women Believe while Wedding Planning

Being a bride-to-be can be an incredibly sweet and exciting time. It can also be a quite challenging time, filled with temptations and anxieties that are uncharted in a woman’s life until the sparkling engagement ring slides on her finger. Wedding planning can turn even the most laid-back girl into a stressed filled bride-zilla. Praise God that even then, we can find the truth of his word to be a very present help in time of need, silencing the lies that our flesh, the enemy and the self-obsessed wedding industry entice us to believe.

Lie #1: This is my day.

 
False. Though this day will and should bring much joy, scripture makes clear that marriage is God’s doing and that he has created it in order that the covenant love of Christ for his bride, the Church, might be put on display. In the first “wedding” of all time, Genesis 2:22 explains that after causing a deep sleep to come over Adam, God creates Eve out of one of his ribs and brings her to him. Also in Mark 10:8-9, while referring back to this scene in Genesis, Jesus explains that, “’The two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.“   Continue at Brittany Lind