Spousal Communication

Sunday morning I was sitting in church and watching people while waiting for the service to start. My lovely wife was not with me, she was in another portion of the church working.

As I sat and people watched, I became enthralled, I watched the communication going on between husbands and wives. There was a beautiful closeness to it. They communicated in way that others would not understand. Each couple was unique. The soft hushed words of a wife and the deeper toned response from the husband. Others would be undable to hear clearly what was said, but each couple understood themselves. They may use words or perhaps just sounds that had been expressed for years between the two of them that conveyed the idea to be understood. It was inspiring to see the closeness and somberness as they came together with friends to worship God.

The Church (not the building, the people) is the bride of Christ. The Church communicates with Jesus through prayer and scripture reading and many people do not understand this. But it is an even more beautiful thing than the communication of a husband and wife. The communication between Jesus and his bride is a holy thing. It is separate and apart from the rest of the world. The world watches and hears bits of the communication, but does not understand. In the world's ignorance they ridicule the union as much as a recently divorced angry man would look at a married couple and mock their marriage. The angry man would need to reconcile his anger before he would ever be able to love again.

Pray for marriages and a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ.