The Mystery Of Marriage - Love: The Winged Locomotive
Tonite Rich Bassett began a 6 week series based on "The Mystery of Marriage" by Mike Mason. Click on the link to buy it on Amazon.com.
These are the notes Rich provided us - I’ll post them here each week in case you want to look at them later.
Three things there are too wonderful for me,
Four which I do not comprehend,
The way of an eagle in the air,
The way of a snake on a rock,
The way of a ship in the midst of the sea,
And the way of a man with a maid.Proverbs 30: 18-19
How beautiful you are my darling! Oh how beautiful! . . . You have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes (Song of Songs 4:1, 9) .
In The Dungeon:
“In marriage, one of the deepest and most ethereal mysteries in all of life is demystfied before our very eyes. For when we get married, love itself comes to live with us. That thing we have been chasing ever since we were old enough to believe (however naively) that it must or could be sought, has taken off all its clothes and stretched itself out on our very own bed and announced that it is here to stay… That which was unapproachable becomes that which cannot be gotten rid of’ (59).
• No one escapes love without the feeling of imprisonment (60)
• Marriage is like a steel trap that will not let you go
• Matt 11:28-30, “Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
The picture of the YOKE is a great example of two people coupled together for a greater good. “there is only one way to get untrapped, and that is to relax and start learning more about love than we ever wanted to know” (61).
Kismet or Grace?
“One question that is raised as to whether falling in love is a matter offate or coincidence. We wonder whether there is one special person for us, or whether given just the right circumstances we might equally fall in love with any number of suitable candidates, or indeed with anyone at all” (66).
If you believe that God has ordained your relationship from the beginning of time, does that ruin the freshness and spontaneity of the love?
As you love, are you able to do it unselfishly?
Mason says that when a person hears that they are loved by their spouse; do they realize that they are being told that they are loved by God? “The love of others is intended to be one of the clearest of all signs that to us that we are indeed loved by God. For whoever truly loves, loves the Lord, and whoever is loved, is loved by the Lord” (74).
