I still do

Celebrating five years of marriage is an appropriate occasion to revisit the vows we made to each other on our wedding day. As I looked back over these, I realized I still have them committed to memory. And I still mean every word.

Happy anniversary to my very best friend. Thanks for five exciting years Justin!

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Our Marriage Vows

Justin:
Christina, today we stand before God and these witnesses and make public our commitment to one another. I recognize God’s authority over my life, which is exercised from His loving heart, and praise Him that He has chosen me to be one of His own. I praise Him also for choosing you for me, for I know that he who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord. (Proverbs 18:22)

Christina:
Justin, with greatest joy I come into my new life with you. I am blessed the Lord has chosen for me a trustworthy man, a righteous man who walks in his integrity. Besides the gift of salvation, you are the most precious gift God has given me. (Proverbs 20:6-7)

Justin:
Because God has said it is not good for the man to be alone, He has made a companion suitable for me. I will cleave to you and allow no other human relationship to come before you. (Genesis 2:18, 24)

Christina:
Today I will leave my father and mother and be joined to you. I offer myself completely to you, desiring with all my heart to be your helpmate and companion. (Genesis 2:24)

Justin:
I purpose to love you with God’s love, to provide for your needs through His blessing, to be faithful to you through His strength, and to lead you as He leads me, as long as He gives me life, regardless of circumstances. Christina, I look forward to establishing a home where Christ is glorified that we may serve Him with gladness and joy. I will love you sacrificially, just as Christ loved the Church and gave Himself up for her.

Christina:
Justin, I will be faithful to you and will continually serve Christ as my Lord so that I will be a trustworthy and loving wife. By God’s grace and the power of the Holy Spirit within me, I will serve and love you in all circumstances and submit to you as Christ submitted to the will of the Father, trusting that God will lead you according to His will, for as long as God gives us life on this earth. You are my beloved, and my desire is for you.

Justin:
Christina, just as God gives us a sign of His covenant with His children, so I give you this ring as the sign of the covenant I make to you.

With this ring, I thee wed.

Christina:
Justin, I give you this ring as an outward and visible sign of my covenant with you as we pledge to walk in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever. (Micah 4:5)

With this ring, I thee wed.

Justin:
May God keep us faithful and judge us if anything but death separates us.

Both:
You are now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh.

~06.05.04

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