Remove Your Rings!!!

Ever since middle school I had a fascination with rings. It was just pretty jewelry to me. Even when I became engaged it was just pretty jewelry. Even when I became a wife. It was still just pretty jewelry. I believe from past broken engagements and growing up in a family of multiple divorces on both sides of my family there was no reverence for marriage anymore. It had all been tainted by what I was surrounded by and my own personal experience with relationships. The meaning behind an engagement ring or a wedding band no longer had any meaning to me. The only meaning I had from mine were that they were from my husband and anything he has ever given me has always had great value no matter how small.

Earlier this year, I believe it was in February God commanded me to remove my ALL of my rings. Then replace 3 of them back on. I was only allowed to wear the ones my husband had given to me when we became engaged and my wedding band. On my other hand I was only allowed to wear the one my grandmother had given to me at 18. She passed away in 2010. When God first told me to remove my rings I can admit I did not want to. Yet God reminded me that as we were on this journey to transformation that I had promised to trust and obey Him. So, I removed my rings in obedience, and replaced my engagement ring, wedding band, and the ring from my grandmother back on my fingers and said, "Now what God?"

At this point I was sitting on my bed and God began to tell me the importance of the rings on my finger. They were not just jewelry. This was a covenant between Him and I as well as my husband. I had to respect this covenant and honor this covenant because my marriage was sacred. Like a circle that never ends, marriage is supposed to never end. These circles (rings) around my finger are a never ending covenant that I was not even acknowledging because of my past. So, before I always loved my rings because they were gifts from my husband but now when I look at my rings I love them because they are a reminder of the covenant I made with God and before God with my husband.

Many times we get married and never know what marriage is actually supposed to be because we look at it from the world's view. It is just a piece of paper and some jewelry. No, it is so much more. It is a holy covenant between God. It is something beautiful. It is something amazing. It is a gift from heaven that keeps on giving as long as you do marriage the way God designs it. I thank God for telling me to REMOVE MY RINGS!!! By this command He also removed my ignorance concerning my rings...

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