I Do!

       This week I saw a video that led me to many “aha” moments. I am posting the video and I really think you should watch it because a) it is awesome and b) you will understand this post. SO, without further ado……
   
        I absolutely love this video! As a girl who is embarrassingly consumed with the idea of marriage the idea of Jesus Christ proposing to me was overpowering. I got super excited and it led me to create a bunch of other connections in my head (which is too jumbled for me to explain everything). Because I can’t talk about everything I thought about at once, in only one post, I am going to try to isolate one of my trains of thought for you to read today: Marriage and the Eucharist. This idea of Christ offering his blood to me as a proposal seriously overwhelmed me. I just love how God uses everything for his glory, even marriage traditions. I know that his choosing to present the Eucharist for the first time, in this way, was no coincidence.                      

       Consider a true marriage proposal. A man loves a woman so much that he wants to commit himself to her fully. He does this by asking for her hand in marriage. When he asks her to marry him he is committing to protect her, to offer up his life for her, to give his blood if need be. That is what Jesus is doing, he is saying I love you so much that I want to marry you, I want to commit myself to protecting you, I will spill my blood for you (and he did). Seriously, take that in for a moment.

        Then, he takes it a step further, he says not only do I commit my life to you, but I love you so much that I want to unite our bodies together. Just as a husband offers himself heart and body to his wife in their marriage, Jesus offers to unite himself with us. He offers himself completely to us through his body in the Eucharist. He gives himself to his church completely, even though we are and “adulterous” and “unfaithful” bride.
       
        Jesus wants us, wants me, to see him with the same wide-eyed wonderment that I view a Disney happily ever after. Guess what, Disney isn't real, God is. This is a real and true and eternal covenant that he is offering us here and we have the choice to push the cup away or drink up.
     
       Sorry if that made zero sense to you but at least the video is great. What did you think of the video? Do you like having a video to watch with the posts? Suggestions? Comments? Questions? Drop me a line in the comments below!