The Ring

I saw a ring laying there, and while picking it up, I noticed the inscription said: “True Love Waits”. Wow, I thought what a statement, it captured me, I felt the Spirit of God leading me by this simple yet profound statement.

At once my thoughts went to God and to Scripture that tells of this and what the meaning of that statement says to me. How the Father waited for the return of his son and the depths of a love that is expressed in that story. And personally of how my own parents waited, praying for decades for my salvations and to be used by God. At my Baptism, just a couple of months after Jesus became Lord and Master of my life. My dad, in the pool with me, helping baptize me, said, son this is 20 some years of prayers answered. That blew me away. Wow

True Love Waits, no matter what the trails or joys life brings. Even has a son stumbles through life, lost, with little hope. Parents wait praying, patiently, waiting, never turning away, never forcing their wants. What devotion, what love that spoke to me.

Working that statement further, I could see how this is expressed or not expressed in marriage. I think of my own marriage and how God has moved me from lusting after my wife, with a self-centered passion to please my own sexual desires, to a place where just having sex with her is no longer desirable, is no longer acceptable. Don’t get me wrong here. I long to express true love to her, love that is centered on her needs, not my desires. I have an ache deep down in my soul that’s driving me to pursue my wife. Treasuring her as God does. True Love Waits. Even in the bedroom.

Then taking this further into my life, working it into other areas. I think of the opportunities with my children, and how if I truly love them how I am to wait. And I can tell you that, that has offered some of the greatest challenges most of which have been before I knew Christ. But since Christ came into my life, I’ve had children come to the Lord and also walk away from the Lord. I’ve make some mistakes both coming and going. But, I’ve learned that True Love Waits.

This ring, this statement on the ring, was introduce to young people, to guide them as they struggled in a world where everything is driven by sex. To help them remember, to wait till marriage and true love before having sex. But this statement has now penetrated so deeply into soul. It talks to me about my relationship with God and His relationship with me. How He does wait, how I should wait. Keep this. Work it into the very fabric of your life. True Love Waits. True Love Waits.

Richard.