I presented a Wedding Bible last Friday to a newlywed couple in our church:
“This Bible is new, clean, and unstained. May it not remain this way.
First, may it gather some coffee stains, where sitting down to talk about your day, it is very close at hand.
Second, may it bear some food stains, as you eat your daily bread together, and feed on His Word by faith.
One day perhaps little hand-stains, where children and grandchildren climb into your lap during family worship and leave their marks behind.
Next, may it contain many tear stains of brokenness, repentance, forgiveness, joy and laughter, learning to weep before the Lord.
And above all, may it contain bloodstains. That on every page you see He is the Living Savior, where all the promises of God are yea and amen.
So, husband, wife, what will this Bible look like in fifty years time? Worn? Weathered? Stained? That will be its beauty, that it has lived with you, spoken to you, read you, and carried you through life with Christ together. May it tell your story as it tells His.”
Amen !!