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Affection Perfected in Love

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By: Nancy Abiera

 

“God is love and those who abide in God has His love.”

I participated in the wedding celebration of our Tita “Gorgeous” Veronica Leighton and Tito “Irog” Joe Mauricio last May 31, 2018 celebrating their love for over 22 years.

Isaiah 22:22 says: “And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.”

Marriage is like a door to experience true love.

Love is truly amazing… witnessing the most matured couple I ever known tying the knot of sacred union of marriage.

The spirit of love, joy, peace, faith and other electrifying emotions filled the air as we celebrated with them. Tita “V” was so gorgeous on her “Shining-Eight” birthday and wedding gown. Yes, it was a double celebration of her birthday and their wedding union.

There goes the truth to the love slogan “Indeed there is forever.”

Marriage Union is the ultimate promise we make to God, the people, and to one another.”

As most of us married are aware, marriage is more than just a relationship; it is all about union or being in unity with God and with each other as married couple regardless whether people got married in court or in church. God honors and gives authority to law making bodies like our civil courts.

Unity is defined as the state of being in full agreement. Harmony. Oneness.

Yours is mine and mine is yours. ” I ” is now replaced with “We” with God in the center. Unity is about understanding as a couple to stand in front of witnesses, making a commitment to a covenant of a sacred and holy union to one another before God.

Love is truly an amazing thing. I overheard Tito “Irog” Joe saying “Affection exceeds Perfection”. Very true as I witnessed them lived, laughed and loved with so much affection for each other especially when they faced many challenges as well as joys in life.

Love is the foundation of marriage centered in God, the author of love for which a husband and wife follow along in unity with the Lord.

1 John 4:16 states it simply: “God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them.”

Love is so powerful. The power of love can provide comfort, peace, joy, healing, confidence, and freedom. The power of love can allow one to forgive another even when it was most undeserved.

The power of love can allow one to endure suffering to sacrifice themselves in order to protect. We have this ability to love one another because our Creator loved us first.

Our Heavenly Father loved us so much that He gave us His one and only Son, Jesus Christ, to suffer and endure a painful death on the cross, so that whoever believes in Him can have eternal life.

Our God, the ultimate and holy craftsman, longs for His children to experience the true intention of his creation… to love and to be loved. We are called to love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our mind, and with all our strength.

We are called to love our neighbor as ourselves [Mark 12:30- 31].

Let us remember the truth that we are loved first by Jesus so through that we are to love ourselves (not from arrogance), but humbly, with the confidence that we were created in the image of our perfect God. If God is love, then His love is everlasting and never ending.

I have learned a lot throughout my own marriage and witnessed others yet I still have much to learn but one thing I did learn is how important forgiveness is.

The truth is that we have all been forgiven by Jesus for our sins, not just one or two, but ALL our sins. If we have been forgiven, how can we not forgive others?

During marriage, it is very easy to keep a track list of all the bad things your wife or husband did, forgotten to do, mistakes made, and broken promises.

Imagine keeping that type of track list over 1 year, 2, 5, 10, or even 50 years. But, love keeps no record of wrongs… love is patient, love is kind, love is not jealous, proud, or rude. (1 Corinthians 13:4- 5).

We are to be tenderhearted, forgiving one another as Christ forgave you (Ephesians4:32).

Note that through forgiveness, there is freedom, through freedom there is victory through our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 15:57).

As now husband and wife, Veronica and Joe, may I remind you that you are both in the same team now with our one and only coach Jesus.

I encourage you both to remain in love and in unity, to stand firm in your faith with the foundation of Jesus’ love, to be world changers for the Chicago communities and for the greater kingdom of God.

Truly, Tita “Gorgeous” Veronica and Tito “Irog” Joe have a very extraordinary kind of affection perfected in love for each other that inspired all of us.

Always choose “On A Bright Side”.

I love you readers with the love of the Lord, yet the Lord loves you the most. Smile and be a blessing… Rev. Nancy H. Abiera

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