Today Petra and I celebrate our 13 years ‘courting’ anniversary. Tomorrow will actually be our 9 year wedding anniversary with the gift of pottery being traditional. If you are interested in buying us a present I we would quite like a pottery flat screen TV or a pottery Wii. Whilst sitting here wondering where 9 years of my life went (I seem to have blinked and missed it) I was reminded that the Bible often describes the relationship between Christians and Jesus as being like a marraige. I find it interesting that the Bible uses the imagery of marriage to describe the close bond of intimacy that God wants to exist between us and Him.

If I want to avoid spending my life sleeping on the couch there are certain things within my marraige that I must work at. I must keep promises, help out around the house and spend time with my wife. But perhaps the biggest factor to the success of a marraige is faithfulness. In fact I expect my wife to remain faithful to me and she expects me to do the same. I’m sure that God wants me to remain 100% faithful to Him but even when I don’t He incredibly remains faithful to me.

When I mess about “behind God’s back” with petulant sins I am glad that He never turns away from me. He never gives up on me but continues to love me. The sacrifice of Jesus on the cross is not removed from me but impossibly when I am at my most unfaithful to Him His faithfullness to me is shown even more powerfully.